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All the code for articles you can find on my github. The project will have branches pointed at the state of the code for each article in the series.
Luckily, there are quite a few libraries out there that provide this functionality, some of them specifically aimed at OpenGL. Those libraries save us all the operation-system specific work and give us a window and an OpenGL context to render in. One of those libraries is glutin. It allows us to create an OpenGL context, define window parameters, and handle user input, which is plenty enough for our purposes.
In this series of articles we are going to learn basics of OpenGL and try our hands on writing some graphics applications. We will use Rust as a programming language. Traditionally graphics programming closely related to С/C++ due to performance constraints. Rust is a modern alternative to C/C++ it's much safer and have good interoperability with C, which we are going to use calling OpenGL API. For this article experience of Rust is not a requirement although prior programming experience is nice to have. Rust book is a great resource to start if you want to learn more about Rust.