SDL VS llvm-project

Compare SDL vs llvm-project and see what are their differences.

SDL

Simple Directmedia Layer (by libsdl-org)

llvm-project

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. (by llvm)
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SDL llvm-project
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8,205 25,451
4.8% 3.6%
10.0 10.0
about 20 hours ago 7 days ago
C C++
zlib License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SDL

Posts with mentions or reviews of SDL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.
  • C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    The linked project doesn't use any ObjC files at all. SDL2 has a bunch of Cocoa files[1] so you did use Cocoa even if unknowingly.

    [1] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/tree/main/src/video/cocoa

  • Revert "video: Prefer Wayland over X11 (take 2)"
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
    Correct. It's explained here:

    https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/9345#issuecomment-201...

    XWayland has special hooks into the compositors that normal wayland clients don't get.

  • Semantic Patching in C with Coccinelle
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023
    Found about this through the release of SDL 3: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/build-scripts/SD...
  • reflect-cpp - Now with compile time extraction of field names from structs and enums using C++-20.
    9 projects | /r/cpp | 9 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/include/SDL3/SDL_events.h
  • BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023
    If that app ran in a 640x480 mode, memory accesses would be just as fast as the VGA applications 25 years ago, correct?

    I think there's a lot more going on than that. Here's SDL's current pixel access code:

    https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/video/SDL_su...

  • Games! How they write code for SDL (+ interview with the creator)
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Nov 2023
    We use the code examples throughout the article. The ellipsis characters "...." in the code were added by the author of the article. You can find the source files on the official GitHub of libsdl. In addition, each fragment has a reference to a specific area in the code. By the time this article is published, many errors will have already been fixed thanks to the issues we opened (for example, here and there). However, the links in the examples point exactly to the code you see in this article. Not only do we enjoy teasing developers but we also like making their projects a little bit better!
  • Regarding including external libraries and prefix folders.
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 30 Sep 2023
    FetchContent_Declare(SDL2 GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL.git GIT_TAG release-2.28.3 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SDL2)
  • SDL3 Filesystem API RFC
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023
  • Chip8 emulator
    2 projects | /r/EmuDev | 17 Aug 2023
    It's not that difficult, I recently started learning to use graphics APIs myself. OpenGL is for linux, etc., directx for windows and vulkan for all platforms. I read through a bunch of forums yesterday and decided to go for vulkan (here is a link to the sdk) for my next small projects because it can run on all platforms. I would recommend to watch a basic tutorial series (like this one) for the graphics api itself to get an understanding of whats going on. And on top of that I use SDL2 for eventhandling and ImGui for the graphical user interface. Here is a link to a guide for setting up vulkan on your platform in case you would go for it.
  • Felt Cute, Might git rm --rf
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Aug 2023
    SDL (which will be bumped to SDL3), straight from the authoritative https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl

llvm-project

Posts with mentions or reviews of llvm-project. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    'Computer Architeture: A Quantitative Apporach" and/or more specific design types (mips, arm, etc) can be found under the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architeture and Design.

    "Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries: Get to Grips With Llvm Essentials and Use the Core Libraries to Build Advanced Tools "

    "The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) : LLVM" https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html

    "Tourist Guide to LLVM source code" : https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453

    llvm home page : https://llvm.org/

    llvm tutorial : https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

    llvm reference : https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

    learn by examples : C source code to 'llvm' bitcode : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9148890/how-to-make-clan...

  • Flang-new: How to force arrays to be allocated on the heap?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024
    See

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/88344

    https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/flang-new-how-to-forc...

  • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
  • Programming from Top to Bottom - Parsing
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    You can never mistake type_declaration with an identifier, otherwise the program will not work. Aside from that constraint, you are free to name them whatever you like, there is no one standard, and each parser has it own naming conventions, unless you are planning to use something like LLVM. If you are interested, you can see examples of naming in different language parsers in the AST Explorer.
  • Look ma, I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    > There is one way to make the LLVM JIT compiler more usable, but I fear it’s going to take years to be implemented: being able to cache and reuse compiled queries.

    Actually, it's implemented in LLVM for years :) https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a98546ebcd2a692e...

  • C++ Safety, in Context
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
    > It's true, this was a CVE in Rust and not a CVE in C++, but only because C++ doesn't regard the issue as a problem at all. The problem definitely exists in C++, but it's not acknowledged as a problem, let alone fixed.

    Can you find a link that substantiates your claim? You're throwing out some heavy accusations here that don't seem to match reality at all.

    Case in point, this was fixed in both major C++ libraries:

    https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/ebf6175464768983a2d...

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4f67a909902d8ab9...

    So what C++ community refused to regard this as an issue and refused to fix it? Where is your supporting evidence for your claims?

  • Clang accepts MSVC arguments and targets Windows if its binary is named clang-cl
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    For everyone else looking for the magic in this almost 7k lines monster, look at line 6610 [1].

    [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/8ec28af8eaff5acd0d...

  • Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024
    Through value tracking. It's actually LLVM that does this, GCC probably does it as well, so in theory explicit bounds checks in regular C code would also be removed by the compiler.

    How it works exactly I don't know, and apparently it's so complex that it requires over 9000 lines of C++ to express:

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Anal...

  • Fortran 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/docs/F2...
  • MiniScript Ports
    10 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2024
    • Go • Rust • Lua • pure C (sans C++) • 6502 assembly • WebAssembly • compiler backends, like LLVM or Cranelift

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SDL and llvm-project you can also consider the following projects:

GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Lark - Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.

Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

gcc

olcPixelGameEngine - The official distribution of olcPixelGameEngine, a tool used in javidx9's YouTube videos and projects

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier

windmill - Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (5x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool.

DualSenseSupport - Preliminar DualSense

STL - MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library.