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[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Primo,

I agree that the new raw graphic APIs do ask for a great amount of knowledge from the user. I actually perceive the hardcore trend as positive one, as it allows those, who need maxx power to reach it (very hard 5 years ago), and I consider it responsibility of abstractions to provide the nice-to-use interface.

It is a not a problem to implement own glRotate, glTranslate - they are just manipulation of the matrix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(geometry)

It is hard to read code full of matrix implementations, the learning curve is not as steep with glRotate / glTranslate like functions.

I recommend to write such a wrappers, I did the same in entity system in TBGL - it does not use any glRotate/glTranslate internally.


Petr

[kcvinu]

Hi all,
What's your opinion about Nim ? Its also a system programming language. Python like syntax with C like power and speed. And it is coming with GC also. I just tried it. Looks very nice to me.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi kcvinu,

I had a look at Nim - do like the Pythonish syntax. The drive of the Rust community seems bigger to me, so I stick to my rusty love :P

Yet - I am glad to learn more about Nim. Could you please open new thread and let us know what you like most?


P

[kcvinu]

@Petr
Sure.