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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 00:37:14 JST Rich Felker

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   @eniko @swetland Yeah, if you just need a proof of concept or something for your own personal use, these kinds of minimal things seem pretty ideal. SDL isn't maximally easy/simple, but it's about as easy and simple as you can get while really having the level of control you want for a serious game or similar graphical application.

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 00:37:15 JST Eniko Fox

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     • Brian Swetland

     @swetland not in this case. all i need is to be able to plot pixels and see them so i can port my triangle rasterizer from javascript to C

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     Brian Swetland (swetland@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 00:37:18 JST Brian Swetland

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     • Eniko Fox

     @eniko My feeling is you probably can find something simpler than SDL, but it's not going to be all that much simpler and/or will be outweighed by SDL's level of documentation, reliability, and broad platform support -- all of which have always felt like a pretty big win to me. Once you have a framebuffer you tend to end up wanting input, audio, platform abstractions for threads/mutexes/etc... at least that's been my experience.

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 00:37:19 JST Eniko Fox

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     mostly i'm learning people think SDL is a lot easier than i think it is

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 00:37:20 JST Eniko Fox

     what's the easiest way to get a window and a framebuffer going in C?