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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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onikolas7·Jul 7, 2023

Translating the OpenGL code to Metal/Vulkan will likely be a lot of work. Have a look at [1] which is something like tutorial 1 in the series. Its super verbose! OpenGL 4.1 was silently supported up to some version of OSX. Not sure if that is still the case. You could try changing: import github.com/go-gl/gl/v4.6-core/gl to import github.com/go-gl/gl/v4.1-core/gl and see if it works. [1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/blob/main/sam...

In Show HN: A tutorial for building a 2D game engine with Go and OpenGL

lloeki·Jun 24, 2016

This kind of thing is bound to get better as it gets wrapped in with a more idiomatic interface. Things like https://github.com/go-gl/gl started as ugly hacks requiring passing unsafe pointers and stuff around but have made great strides since then. I don't know the details and I'm thinking aloud right now, but the comments about "windows.h", constants, and accessing C via cgo possibly point to an automatically generated solution (possibly leveraging "go generate"). Whatever, native GUI bindings has been a key factor for the adoption (or lack thereof) of some languages where they would have otherwise been perfectly fine.

In Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go

lloeki·Feb 10, 2015

> I'm not sure how many game developers will value Rust's memory safety over C++'s sheer flexibility and mature* tooling* Spot on. What sets an immediate roadblock for me is this, straight from the Piston readme: > You should be able to run the command rustc -v > You should be able to run the command cargo -V The first one is incredibly easy: brew install rust, which currently brings in 1.0.0-alpha. The second one, well†... Its very homepage[0] says: > The easiest way to get Cargo is to get the Rust nightly build So the only easy step out of two is instantly invalidated. This is followed by: > This will get you the latest Rust nightly for your platform along with the latest Cargo. You should run this script almost every day to get the latest updates. Okay so the de facto standard dependency manager is apparently deeply tied to rust itself

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, yet not included in the rust distro, and it's apparently quite not stable enough to warrant daily updates. And even 1.0.0 (granted, "-alpha") doesn't include it, so it may not be ready before god knows when. Compare: export GOPATH=$(pwd) brew install glew brew install homebrew/versions/glfw3 go get github.com/go-gl/gl go get github.com/go-gl/glfw3 vim whatever.go # https://github.com/go-gl/glfw3#example go run whatever.go # yay OpenGL! This means that although Piston does look great, and Rust looks promising, it does not look not dependable right now, because it just doesn't feel mature (even if it is, which I don't know, because my time is limited and there were enough explicit or implicit warnings about dragons to turn me away). † I'm perfectly aware that cargo is available as a Cask, but for various reasons, I don't want casks in my system, and it doesn't preclude the remainder of the discussion. [0]: http://doc.crates.io

In A simple Minecraft written in Rust

kyrra·Apr 21, 2014

The most common solution in go is to use cgo[0] when wanting to bind with another language. From C you can then do whatever you'd like. That's how people are interacting with OpenGL[1] or QT[2] for example. Though, it seems like most common use cases of Go are to stay within the libraries supported by the shipping library or 3rd party libraries written in pure Go. [0] http://golang.org/cmd/cgo/ [1] https://github.com/go-gl/gl [2] https://code.google.com/p/goqt/

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