- cross-posted to:
- linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- linux@programming.dev
- linux@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- linux@programming.dev
- linux@lemmy.ml
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.