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oryol
C++2014–2026
floooh / oryol

oryol

A small, portable and extensible C++ 3D coding framework

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What it is

A small, portable and extensible C++ 3D coding framework

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-03 20:04:47 UTC to 2026-06-13 17:53:09 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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pierrec·Jun 22, 2017
The best argument I've seen for using orthodox C++ is when writing something you want to compile to both native platforms and web using emscripten, while aiming for good performance and small distribution size. For example, this is what Oryol achieves, targeting OpenGL on native and WebGL on web. I don't think anything could beat the "Orthodox C++" approach for that purpose, aside from using C (which is what I'm using for a project right now). https://github.com/floooh/oryol/
In Show HN: Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++
rl3·Jan 2, 2017
While I love Three.js, its editor has been around for almost as long as the project itself and is sort of neglected by comparison. WebGL Studio[0] has a far more impressive editor, but its underlying engine is custom, so in most cases it isn't anywhere near as useful as Three.js due to the latter's ecosystem. One thing I don't like about either editor is that they're web-based. While it makes a ton of sense on paper, I hate doing any serious 3D work in a browser window. Something like Microsoft's Language Server Protocol[1] but for graphical editors would be amazing. Run the project in a browser window while having bidirectional flow of data between a native desktop editor and the browser window. Unfortunately if you want to run something like Three.js inside of a native desktop editor, you'd have to embed a web runtime. That really ballo
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ons project complexity, so I can see why so many people prefer web-based editors when making web-based projects. One alternative, at least for 3D applications, is multi-platform frameworks that also work on the web. Oryol[2] in particular comes to mind. Hypothetically you could build a native editor around it, with no need to embed a runtime. The native editor's viewport would just use native graphics APIs for rendering. Then when you like what you see, just compile the same thing for the web. While some edge cases may not make it that easy, overall it seems to be a far superior workflow than having to deal with web-based editors or embedded web within native applications. Unity 5 and Unreal Engine 4 both have incredible, native desktop editors that support exporting to the web. Unfortunately, they both have massive runtimes that make their web footprints a joke, among other problems. [0] https://webglstudio.org/ [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol [2] https://github.com/floooh/oryol
In Three.js editor
flohofwoe·Dec 3, 2014
This looks extremely interesting to me for the following reason: End of last year I started to write a new C++ 3D engine from scratch. It consists of a flat soup of modules, each compiled to a static library. Modules depend on other modules. For an app, pick and choose the modules you need, dependencies are resolved automatically in the build system, and everything is linked together into one exe. For extensibility and 'decentralisation of ownership', it should be possible to setup modules in separate git repositories, and it should be possible that modules can depend on modules in other git repositories. At the same time, external modules should come as full git repos, it should be possible to work on them and commit/push changes. I looked at git submodules, git subtrees, and Google's git-repo, and they're not quite the right thing. In
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the end I postponed the idea until I either find a better solution, or start writing my own 'external module manager', peru could just be the right solution. PS: github link: https://github.com/floooh/oryol
In Peru – A tool for including other people's code in your projects

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