A proposal must have interested users, yes. A proposal doesn't need to satisfy users who want something else, which is the case for browsers and 2D graphics.
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Replying to @jfbastien @pcwalton and
I am really curious who the users for this would be. Game devs who don’t want middleware? Application devs who insist on building the UI from scratch?
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Replying to @stephentyrone @jfbastien and
People pushed "teaching" as one of the motivational use cases
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Replying to @Cor3ntin @stephentyrone and
OK, but the justification for the standard was weird policies around third-party code at big game studios. That’s pretty far removed from the teaching use case.
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As far as I understood the claimed consumers were - students - people who just want to put things on the screen (say, to do a graph) I don't disagree with helping them. I like things on the screen. That being said, I see flaws with the now-defunct proposal: (...con't)
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Replying to @jfbastien @pcwalton and
Flaws: - teaches the wrong thing - can't even put text on my axis I'd much rather have something that'll be similar to what high-end graphics are like (batching comes to mind). And I want all the complex stuff like text... understanding that it's complex!
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Replying to @jfbastien @Cor3ntin and
To me starting at the high level feels like putting the cart before the horse. Start with the basics, like what SDL gives you. See if that gains traction. Then go up the stack.
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Arguably the ill-fated 2D Graphics proposal starts at the basics: points, lines, etc.
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Replying to @jfbastien @Cor3ntin and
I mean, like, opening a window and getting a bitmap you can put pixels into. Drawing a line is already extremely complex (do you antialias? what level, if any? what color space? do you have a diamond exit rule?)
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Replying to @pcwalton @jfbastien and
Something like https://github.com/dascandy/pixel then?
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That’s cool, but I would not talk about standardizing something before it has any users.
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Replying to @dascandy42 @pcwalton and
Why not?pic.twitter.com/2P6wyJXgmq
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