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Yep, because main-loop boilerplate is all one ever does with graphics programming.

• angersock 13y ago
  Hey, no reason to get snippy--you asked "Isn't SDL the simplest, most portable way to use OpenGL?", and asserted that it's a smaller library. I showed you a still-smaller alternative, and even dug up code to substantiate that point. There's nothing wrong with using SDL for making a game (well, maybe a couple of things, but that's not relevant here), but it simply isn't the smallest GL scaffolding library out there.
  • mahmud 13y ago
    Heh, you're right, I got a little snarky. Sorry :-P But I got bit by half-assed "GL" ways of doing things before. SDL has everything, in layers, so you can grow into it. Unlike "portable GL" libraries which are discrete, isolate dead-ends.
    • eropple 13y ago
      Calling GLFW a "dead end" is misleading and unfair. GLFW does not attempt to handle OpenGL for you, it handles windowing and input for you. I personally really don't want SDL anywhere near my projects because it imposes its own structure upon me. (I don't use Allegro, even for 2D code, for similar reasons.) I am simply not all that fussed by writing up a VBO handler and some pretty simple OpenAL code myself--it isn't difficult enough for me to warrant the huge blob of extraneous SDL stuff.