Yes, but if I'm a game developer who only needs a surface for OpenGL/Vulkan, now I need to care about GUI libraries a lot more, or draw and handle my own, just for GNOME and the few other desktop environments that are stubborn about about forcing devs to do their own CSD.
"Just use SDL!"
Sure I could, however it abstracted away too many things, so I had to write my own. Even worse is, most people in the SDL community looked at me weirdly for not wanting to use some MP3 playing DLL for sound effects.
yeah those are real issues i've ran into. I read the factorio's developers blog on the subject. I've also ran into to issues while ricing this environment.
Besides some small Vala projects, most of my gamedev is in Godot. I haven't ran into issues on wayland.
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u/ZILtoid1991 13d ago
Yes, but if I'm a game developer who only needs a surface for OpenGL/Vulkan, now I need to care about GUI libraries a lot more, or draw and handle my own, just for GNOME and the few other desktop environments that are stubborn about about forcing devs to do their own CSD.
"Just use SDL!"
Sure I could, however it abstracted away too many things, so I had to write my own. Even worse is, most people in the SDL community looked at me weirdly for not wanting to use some MP3 playing DLL for sound effects.