There's nothing horribly wrong with using GLUT; it's just a badly designed library (lack of a context parameter on callbacks requiring use of globals, tons of m

There's nothing horribly wrong with using GLUT; it's just a badly designed library (lack of a context parameter on callbacks requiring use of globals, tons of missing functionality). GLFW is the "spiritual successor" to GLUT and is generally preferred nowadays. SDL2 is also a fine alternative.