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2 days agoOpengl is a weird edge case because the way it links into c programs is cursed. GLAD GLUT and GLFW just make using opengl itself easier by doing all of the library loading automatically. Because there are so many versions of opengl you have to load the specific one you want at runtime, alongside all the separate extension libraries that may or may not be in different binaries, directories, etc.
OpenGL is the exception and not the rule in the normal library - api - program paradigm.
The only consistant thing about conservatives over history is that they are almost always against good social progress, the ones of the past just had more sturdy spines