Your #programming Favourites

shurcool · 2012-05-17T22:17:40

These can be anything: libraries, technologies, concepts, languages. By "favourites" I mean it's anything that you really like (not necessarily use), want to see flourish and continue to be supported. If these things were to go away, you'd be very upset. Here are mine: OpenGL GLFW library - This one is really underrated IMO, it kills me to see people still use glut when GLFW is such a better alternative. OpenRL - I'm really happy it exists and I hope it doesn't die anytime soon, even if it's not ready for prime time yet. The heterogeneous approach is excellent imo. WM_POINTER* messages - I really like what they're doing with the new unified input stack library in Windows 8. It allows developers to treat touch, mouse and styluses as generic "pointer" devices. C++11 (I'm sure I'm leaving out many, but these are my top favs off the top of my head) What are yours? Feel free to repeat what others have mentioned if it's your favourite too.

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Started by shurcool May 01, 2012 07:53 PM

11 comments, last by ChaosEngine 12 years, 9 months ago

AgentC

2,476

May 16, 2012 06:37 PM

Thanks FLeBlanc for the encouraging comment regarding Urho3D

For me,
STB libraries, including minimal image loader, ogg/vorbis decoder, and truetype font rendering
SDL and GLFW, it's sometimes hard to decide between the two - SDL has sound support and more supported platforms, while GLFW is compact and minimally obtrusive
Recast & Detour as well, I hope to get to using this some day, but have had no time yet
AngelScript, very convenient scripting integration with C++

I'm also following other newer, less known open source game engines such as LightFeather, SoftPixel, PixelLight and hmrEngine.

Github: https://github.com/cadaver C64 development: http://covertbitops.c64.org/

_the_phantom_

11,263

May 16, 2012 11:23 PM

C# and the .Net runtime.

Most of the last two months I've been hip deep in it at work for the first time since version 2.0 and as much as I love my normal C++ graphics programming frankly programming with C#4 has been the most fun I've had in a while.

TPL is just so easy to use, finally got a handle on LINQ and bam! my coding style has changed and things just got easy... and once I get a chance to burn some time on Rx I'm sure it'll get even more awesome. (and thats before even touching the DLR! and C# 5 just around the corner too...)

Sure it's not perfect but right now if you told me going forward I could only use C# and .Net I'd be pretty ok with it it

ChaosEngine

5,385

May 17, 2012 10:17 PM

C# and the .Net runtime.

Most of the last two months I've been hip deep in it at work for the first time since version 2.0 and as much as I love my normal C++ graphics programming frankly programming with C#4 has been the most fun I've had in a while.

TPL is just so easy to use, finally got a handle on LINQ and bam! my coding style has changed and things just got easy... and once I get a chance to burn some time on Rx I'm sure it'll get even more awesome. (and thats before even touching the DLR! and C# 5 just around the corner too...)

Sure it's not perfect but right now if you told me going forward I could only use C# and .Net I'd be pretty ok with it it