some people want so bad for opengl to go away.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter @aeva No, you need to throw away 90% of it first. That's the problem.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@breakin @lritter @aeva Exactly! See... someone gets it.

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TomF @aeva ??? GL (like XNA) is for people with a habit and existing GL software. there is nothing to remove, nothing to replace, nothing to add.

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TomF @breakin @aeva well i use SDL_gpu now and i'm reasonably happy.

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TomF @aeva maybe this is difficult to understand for programmers so let me try another way

imagine software that is *done*. all books you bought about it forever valid. a target that does not move. it's legacy, but in the original meaning.

there is no need to upset Graham Sellers any further. Let Him Have This.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter @TomF graham sellers just wants us to be happy

[breakin@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter @TomF @aeva Maybe Graham Sellers is excited for OpenGL 5.0, eager to cut the 90%? Have you asked?

edit: I mean eager to write the book for it!

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@breakin @lritter @TomF tbh I've considered making a library called "GL5" where it's (mostly) just a bindings generator for an opinionated subset of OpenGL 4.5

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@breakin @lritter @TomF however my plans for the immediate future are strictly ES2

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @breakin @lritter "Ey, there's a line here..."

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@breakin @TomF @aeva i'm serious this time. the man did so much tech support on twitter, helped and advised me a bunch of times, and only stopped because of harrassment. he deserves better.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter @breakin @TomF i have several of his tomes. his work is cherished and appreciated by me. i didn't know he was on twitter, and i'm upset that he got treated like that

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @breakin @TomF well the vulkan fans thought the only way to win was to perpetrate what they thought was iconoclasm

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter @breakin @TomF i hate people

[dotstdy@mastodon.social]

@aeva opengl just got mesh shading last year! What now haters??

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dotstdy yeah!

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter @breakin @TomF well jokes on them vulkan is liquid dog shit