SEsergiogdr·Oct 27, 2026Submission
3 points · Open discussionlibsdl-org
SDL
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libsdl-org / SDL
SDL
Simple DirectMedia Layer
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 4 | 10 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 6 | 8 |
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59 sourcesSame for SDL https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/AGENTS.md
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Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs), should not be used in any way when contributing to SDL.
We want our code to be art. We want to interact with real humans. Please don't submit AI-generated comments or code in bug reports or pull requests. We understand some people consider AI to be a useful tool, but we want to connect with you, not your computer.
Any pull request to this project will ask you to confirm that you are the author and that you are contributing your changes under the zlib license.
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In [dead]Android smartphones are notorious in having low-quality Vulkan drivers full of bugs and spec violations... (I'm looking at you Qualcomm!)
A data point: SDL3-GPU maintainers announced that they will not give a shit about Android support, since there's just too many devices that haven't properly implemented the Vulkan spec. (https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/12652#issuecomment-...)
Another data point: the current maintainer of the renderer portion of the Godot engine suffering through all the bug reports from Android devices (https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20s...)
In Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGLVibe engineered WebGPU backend for SDL_GPU with demo
4 points · Open discussionSDL, who's main developer has been at Valve for years, already has added support for it back in November: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/joystick/hid...
In Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license> So what about SO code snippets?
StackOverflow snippets are mostly licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 or 4.0, so I'd wager that they are not allowed, either.
The SDL source code makes a few references to stackoverflow.com, but the only place I could find an exact copy was where the author explicitly licensed the code under a more permissive license: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/5bda0ccfb06ea56c1f15a...
In SDL bans AI-written commitsWith all due respect to antirez, this is too obsolete and most of it is too low-level to be of much interest to anyone using SDL for game development.
People would be better off looking at the examples page and repo for SDL itself.
https://examples.libsdl.org/SDL3/
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/tree/main/examples
In LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for LuaSDL3 doesn't support bindless resources and the plans to do so in the future are very loose[1].
[1] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/11148#issuecomment-...
In LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Luavalve upstreamed support for it in SDL3 already which I assume means basic inputs should work, but I imagine it probably still needs an app like sc-controller to use the touchpads for anything more complicated than mouse input.
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/1998b650452bdf0bee5...
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