OpenGL (within its scope) covers several platforms at once, and anyway has to be handled somehow.<div>Early in Inferno&#39;s history, I looked at the then version OpenGL but since at</div><div>the time it kept drawing state hidden (similar to PostScript), and largely global, and the</div>
<div>designers hadn&#39;t discovered data structures yet, it wasn&#39;t clear whether</div><div>one could do a pleasant interface to it. To judge from (say) the current Python interface,</div><div>probably not. Still putrid, but there&#39;s apparently not a lot you can do.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(OpenVG by contrast seemed much better done, but that&#39;s 2D.)</div><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 April 2012 05:15, Jeff Sickel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jas@corpus-callosum.com">jas@corpus-callosum.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">better to go native drawing libraries with Cocoa or OpenGL.</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>