SDL

“I ported the game to SDL3/Zig and wouldn't you know it I can run continuously at 60 fps”

“given wider platform coverage (e.g. mobile), more system integration (e.g. clipboard)”

“SDL isn't even in the same dimension of usability compared to the Godot editor.”

“SDL is actually one of the most stable libraries that a native game can use.”

“SDL3 was a perfect fit as a backend since it abstracts away the hardware perfectly”

“it brings along much more than SDL2 where you had to use a lot of other libraries to become platform independent with all features”

“quality dependencies on the level of SDL, ffmpeg, libcurl, where one domain is solved well”

“sdl is in the package manager, making it fairly easy to hook into”

“a "industry standard" C library like GSL or SDL3, I just use it and move on”

“LWJGL team recommended a couple of months that projects not use GLFW or move to SDL3 when convenient.”

“You can make an entire 3d game using SDL3 as well, without opengl or vulkan, using the new GPU API!”

“It was mostly a painless refactor though I did have some issues with full screen exclusive modes”

“With improvements on both CMake's end and SDL's own build system, it is quite seamless.”

“SDL3 has better support for switching between keyboard layout keys and physical keys depending on context”

“SDL is a pretty big beast (partly because it needs to accumulate a lot of hacks and workaround for buggy drivers and window systems)”

“SDL has always made it easy to directly present a software buffer of pixels to the screen.”

“SDL is a relatively high level API and framebuffer style graphics work fine on it”

“use SDL or Raylib instead of writing your framebuffer blitter in inline Assembly”

“since they've aggressively dropped support for almost every port/OS they had”

“It's a simple enough implementation that implicitly helps document how SDL is supposed to work”

“you could start writing to the screen in under 30 minutes with some basic libraries like SDL”

“Unreal 5 uses SDL to be able to create "windows" in a cross platform manner”

“SDL2 (much less SDL3) caught up to SFML about 6-7 years ago in usability issues”

“it's full of knowledge by humans from trial and error over years of using input devices in the real world”

“SDL is kinda the king of “I want graphic, but not enough to bring a whole toolkit, or suffer with opengl””

“I would think Claude would recommend using SDL instead of running some janky homespun thing”

“from the official maintainers which have been working on it for decades”

“People would be better off looking at the examples page and repo for SDL itself.”

“I do game development so I'm most familiar with the ones commonly used in game engines”

“ideally I'd like to start making a small 2D game just with SDL3 and C++”

“At very least I can say SDL has reached a passable state for 3D. It doesn't support some modern features like bindless though.”

“The entire point of using a library like SDL is dependency! Use all the things!”

“SDL looks rather strong from my perspective and still my typical goto when having fun making a game.”

“SDL is very relevant. Not just on PC, also on consoles as ports for all modern consoles are available to platform disclosed developers.”

“I would recommend something like SDL if you want a more complete platform abstraction”

“sdl is super high level. If you want to do more than pong, you'll hit a wall very quickly.”

“they have support from Valve, a company that has reasons to care about cross platform gaming”

“I find SDL3 more fun and interesting, but it's a ton of work to to get going.”

“they strongly encourage everyone to dynamically link it in order to keep older games going”

“You can use SDL2, which is behind the Godot port for Sailfish (3.5 still).”