IrrlichtBAW VS bgfx

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• WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024
• Is it possible and realistic to learn independent of an API?
  3 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 6 Dec 2023

  Sort of, I'd recommend a modern higher level API. I'm not sure what the current recommended ones are (probably bgfx), but assuming the wrapper is "low level enough", then the concepts you learn are still going to apply.

• Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023

  https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx for just that FOSS intermediate rendering library (includes Minecraft)

• Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening, There Aren't Enough Players
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
• The Ultimate Cross-Platform Rendering Engine?
  3 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 18 Aug 2023

  BGFX: Pretty mature and easy to use with many backends.

• Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
• Best graphics libraries for game development that are compatible with Apple Metal API?
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 6 Jul 2023

  bgfx. I have not used it, but I have heard good things about it.

• LWJGL = SFML vs Allegro vs SDL vs Ogre vs ???
  2 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 5 Jul 2023

  There's kind of a lack of this for C++ in 3D, I think it's often due to the necessity of a secondary scripting language in game engines with C++, which isn't necessarily needed in Java or C#. SFML is like that (but also 2D), Godot is similar (but more geared towards 2D). Ogre3D is an actual engine like I mentioned earlier, not sure how easy it is to use. Cocos2d is higher level, but is also 2D only. I'm not fond of SDL, it feels like a windowing library with slow old school immediate mode stuff attached, so it ends up not being good at the rest of the tacked on things. SDL is popular as a windowing library, and it's why you see it used everywhere (but the most notable uses of it aren't using their drawing capabilities), I often see bgfx thrown around, and for you it might be a good choice, though I have no experience with it.

• Is it a crazy idea to create a 3D operating system?
  5 projects | /r/osdev | 21 May 2023

  Another route could be using an abstraction over Vulkan (faster, more efficient, more difficult): bgfx, dawn, magma, or wgpu (Rust).

• The update we all want but will never get
  2 projects | /r/PhoenixSC | 28 Mar 2023

  now, java is actually quite a performant language and even if its not most of the performance bugs in mc are due to it being single threaded, inefficient chunk generation and optimizing, and it built ontop of opengl WHICH isn't much of a performance hit but its still ehh idk it doesn't matter that much (NOW SWITCHING THE GAME TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GRAPHICS API WOULD SUCK ASS TO DO (and vulkan is quite verbose :))) (AND also bgfx would probably be better due to it being an abstraction layer ontop of all the graphics apis so minecraft could target many depending on your platform (and also bedrock used to (or still does i dont know) use bgfx before they switched to just two (IF IM READING MC WIKI RIGHT BECAUSE IM NOT ENTIRELY SURE IF THEY USE BGFX STILL ?? SO THEY COULD STILL BE TARGETING MULTIPLE YET THEY JUST WROTE THEIR NEW SHIT BAD IDK))