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SDL3 is officially released!
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Why is this on Patreon?
downvoting because there's no indication as to exactly what this is and how it fits into the technology community.
Edit: Some sort of game engine?
SDL3 is a set of C libraries for doing cross platform gamedev stuff. It abstract over platform APIs for things like window creation/management, input handling, audio etc.
So kind of like proton, except for multiple platforms and in the source code instead?
Not even close, Proton is a translation layer from Win32 API to whatever works similar for Linux, SDL just gives a higher level API of lower level stuff, like instead of using Xorg/Wayland directly, you get a nicer cross platform API that does the job well
Wow
It's been production-ready for a while, Valve is known to use it for long time. Official release is more for API and ABI stability so you don't have to change anything to upgrade.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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