Legacy OpenGL is a pain not because of the state machine, but the many ways of doing things, some of which are slow. The weird function names don't help either.

Legacy OpenGL is a pain not because of the state machine, but the many ways of doing things, some of which are slow. The weird function names don't help either. WebGL is better than that because it is only the useful, fast subset, and provides some objects too. Plus JavaScript is easier to work with than C, too. Anyway modern APIs are not stateless, having an object that contains the state is the same. In the end, it is still all about bind this, bind that, do this, do that.