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is sdl2 really that bad?

by mouse_ 1y ago

krapp 1y ago
It's impossible to know what issues they have, since they don't specify. But no, for the vast majority of people, SDL2 is perfectly fine, although SDL3 is a vast improvement. It's as stable and battle-tested as a cross platform multimedia library is bound to get. Opening a window and polling input is trivial. Then again I've never even heard of the language they're using (Odin) so maybe that doesn't play well with a C library.
- gingerBill 1y ago
  The bugs have nothing to do with the language and exist in C too. I'll just link to some of the bugs directly that posted as issues to SDL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4789 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4789 (not fixed) https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4816 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4816 (closed) https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4790 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4790 (closed) And these being the bugs we found ourselves, not other bugs that have already been found, and many marked "as not planned" since SDL2 is now finished.