Re: [Caml-list] Pros and cons of different GL bindings ?

[David Sheets <sheets@ashimaarts.com>]

You could also compile your OCaml to Javascript and use WebGL. We've
not yet written the ocamljs bindings to mimic lablgles but the
javascript shim is fairly small, "native" (not autogen'ed bindings)
and simple. The business logic stays in OCaml. We will soon be
tightening the ocamljs/closure-compiler toolchain to get even smaller
and faster js files.

You can see some early results from this design at http://ashimagames.com/

We are actively investigating compiling a strict OCaml subset
(directly semantically translatable to recursion-less GLSL) to
GLSL/Javascript for numeric library portability and algebraic
simplification of shaders.

If you are interested in this architecture, let me know and I can
clean up and send you the closure-compiler externs files we use to
escape the minification of the WebGL interface. If you require ocamljs
assistance, I would also be happy to help with that.

Best,

David Sheets
Ashima Arts

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM,  <rixed@happyleptic.org> wrote:
> There is also my own pet binding (glop project on gitorious) if you
> need an abstraction layer above both OpenGL or GLES, but I don't
> recommend it since you would be the only user :-)
>
>> Oh, if anyone knows of someone making OpenGL 4 / OpenGL ES 2 bindings...
>> please speak up! :)
>
> The problem with shaders is that it seams a very unpleasant(*) language
> is imposed on us. If good old OpenGL was a brilliant abstraction
> between a program and an hypothetical hardware, recent OpenGL versions are
> more like an API to access proprietary hardware, thus it is much less
> exciting to bind ocaml with this thing.
>
> (*): at least from the point of view of an ocaml programmer
>
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