Try to propose using OpenGL to a game developer and you'll be laughed at. OpenGL dominates the massive mobile industry (those billion or so Android and iOS han

Try to propose using OpenGL to a game developer and you'll be laughed at. OpenGL dominates the massive mobile industry (those billion or so Android and iOS handsets run and live on OGL ES 2.0), and OpenGL was the premiere desktop gaming API until relatively recently. Then it fell behind not because it was a defective API, but rather because the OpenGL working group was far too slow to adapt to hardware improvements -- mired in infighting and bureaucratic BS -- while DirectX raced ahead with things like geometry shaders. Of course mobile has completely changed the equation, and suddenly people are writing OpenGL engines that only make sense to use against all other targets (Windows, Linux, etc)