How does "a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool" come to depend on OpenGL, threatening its future on MacOS?

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Timshel 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> It's not easy to fix in the code either because it'll require major changes to the GUI library which can get messy, especially since GUIs were never a strength of Go.

	▲	Cthulhu_ 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		There just doesn't seem to be a lot of viable competition to web based UIs these days.

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kevingadd 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you're using a portable library that needs to render graphics on mac, it's probably using OpenGL to do it unless it has a platform-specific backend.

	▲	nicoburns 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Historically, yes. These days it might well be using wgpu.

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rollcat 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Immediate mode UI toolkits are designed for pluggable backends, some even can discover the appropriate backend at runtime. If you're writing a game, you're expected to (and actually, you must) build your own integration.

ImGUI and Nuklear each have 20+ backends in their repos: <https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/backends> <https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/tree/master/dem...>