There’s no more reliable way to disabuse someone of the idea that X11 is worth saving than to have them write a modern GL app without any frameworks, only raw GLX/Xlib.
-
-
I see this is using Xlib. Is it true that applications are forced to use Xlib (rather than, say, assembly that speaks the X protocol) due to the gl/vulkan drivers being loaded as dynamic libraries with dynamic link dependencies on Xlib?
-
https://xcb.freedesktop.org/opengl/ has a good explanation
- 2 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.