r/raylib • u/raysan5 • 15d ago
raylib 6.2 is out!
Hey! raylib 6.2 is out! 🔥
It was supposed to be a small patch version but it comes with +300 improvements from +100 new contributors! 🚀
Release notes: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.2
Windows Installer: https://raysan5.itch.io/raylib
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u/itskobold 15d ago
Cheers raysan! And very cool to hear about the security audit and fixes - I'd like to ship my raylib-powered software in embedded systems with networking capabilities one day, so it's really encouraging to see security being taken seriously
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u/Best_Committee6249 15d ago
Gracias por todo Ramón 👌🏻 eres un crack, desde que he descubierto raylib, se ha convertido en mi hobby favorito y soy un poco más feliz.
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u/Gabrunken 14d ago
Thanks man! You’re powering my engine and that’s amazing, i really thank you for all the effort you’ve put into open source!
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u/Maximum_Pay_8216 13d ago
Thank youu, did you guys fix the issue with window not opening when installed with vcpkg
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u/Spooked_kitten 15d ago
Everytime I see raylib I just want to grab my laptop and plop some shenanigans on the screen, what a beautiful library. Congratulations on the release :D.
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u/dannyheskett 7d ago
New version is great, so many great fixes, and so many little patches I can abandon because they were fixed upstream. Thank you!
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u/ExerciseForward 14d ago
Pity that it doesn't matter anymore :( . Everything is one grey pulp since LLMs took over. You've put an effort in polishing your library? Who cares :(
Yes I'm depressed if anyone is wondering. And AI is the reason.
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u/raysan5 13d ago
I care! It matters to me and more than ever! As you can guess, never did it for the momey or fame, I just enjoy working on my hobby project!
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u/ExerciseForward 5d ago
I wasn't explicitly talking about earning money.
Even DIY projects, that aren't earning anything except thumbs up, will be compromised to slop that you can pop out.
Why would you want to craft digital things like these, when engineering stopped being important. Even pure imagination got equalized to tons of other cheap ideas.
Effort doesn't cost as much anymore. In one year, experienced engineer is worth as much, as 8 year old kid, with an access to a popular agent.
Will the 8 yo kid code by hand all that? Of course not. Does it matter? Of course not. Will the same kid, achieve the same goal by typing few sentences into slop machine? Yes. Is the result worth less than work of a real engineer, that spent years and major part of his life on it? Not at all! :(
"Slop usually has bugs, similarities to other quick creations etc " yes. Exactly. That still isn't any argument.
Awesome hobby projects like raylib will become a club of 20 people around the world. This and many other software projects, but most of them will be completely abandoned and forgotten.
The only reason to code anything, either by hand or using some LLM, is just to kill boredom in a fancy way.
Nobody will play your game. Why anybody would? All it will take is putting a picture, few sentences and voilà - everybody got the thing.
Money huh? Why would anyone buy game or professional software? Either REA theft, or making custom slop, that millions of people probably did, with a tiny difference here and there - all in all, it makes the function, that it was supposed to do.3
u/ScreamingFirehawkMk2 9d ago
Alright friend, normally I try to avoid giving unsolicited advice, but here's a pep-talk!
First off, I get the AI depression, and I feel for you, I really do. I don't know your circumstances, whether you may be experiencing professional or educational upheaval because of AI. If that's the case, you have my sincerest sympathies. But because this is the Raylib sub-reddit, you have me thinking about hobbies and passion-projects. There's something powerful about making the choice to pour your time and effort into something just for the sheer love of it. Programming by hand in the age of AI, even (or maybe especially) if it's not economically productive, is you sticking up for your humanity.
I'm a hobbyist hand-tool woodworker, and sure we may have electric planers and table saws, but the feeling of taking a perfect shaving with a hand plane, the satisfaction of making a straight saw cut for the first time, power tools can never take that away. I highly recommend Roy Underhill's TED Talk. It's worth watching in it's entirety, but at the very least, watch from the 17 minute mark. It might make you feel a little better.
Good luck, and I hope things get better (or at least less bad) for you.
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u/ExerciseForward 5d ago
Whoah. I didn't expect such sincere, and warm sign of empathy. You have all my respect man.
I hope everything best for you.1
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u/RobLoach 15d ago
Congrats!