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rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC

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241 points fschuett | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ciroduran ◴[21 Oct 25 22:55 UTC] No.45662771[source]▶
Raylib's author was very happy to announce that you can compile an entire raylib program with no dependencies other than, say, being a win32 app https://x.com/raysan5/status/1980322289527976202
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smlacy ◴[22 Oct 25 00:34 UTC] No.45663602[source]▶
but ... why?
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stodor89 ◴[22 Oct 25 06:16 UTC] No.45665446[source]▶
Because GPU APIs are a nightmare clustertruck.
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mungaihaha ◴[22 Oct 25 07:01 UTC] No.45665731[source]▶
1000x less performance is a bigger clusterfuck
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1. rootnod3 ◴[22 Oct 25 07:33 UTC] No.45665905{3}[source]▶
It's not meant for "let's make the next AAA game". It's for "Hey, I wanna try a fun idea".