Well, the point is to learn how to build an engine with modern capabilities (those that you are supposed to use with C++ like namespaces, methods, ECS architecture, networking...), SDL is just a tool to not having to write the whole window/input/media/opengl logic from scratch. I could write a SDL tutorial and make a game in 3 hours; it's not as interesting i think, for me the objective is not to write a game but to explain how engines works and desmitify them a little :S

But you are right, it'll take a daaamn long time. I've the third and the forth parts almost ready, covering the engine architecture itself, the private scene scope and the image->texture->sprite stuff but i havn't started yet with ECS, fs, configurations, physics, networking... this field is really extense.

One post a week is about as fast as most people can go if they are into nuts-and-bolts technical topics and they are trying to juggle work and life and other demands on their time. That's about the best I could ever manage when I used to be blogging as I learned DirectX. And that was using C#, so you didn't have to boil the ocean and implement all your own fundamental data structures as you go (see the previous post in this series).

It's four and a half years into Handmade Hero at this point :-)

such is life. that is the reality of making games without an engine.