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Very interesting. It reminds me of Love2D, a 2d game engine for Lua that also uses SDL2 as a backend.

DOME is partially inspired by Love2D, although I've tried to approach things a bit differently. Love2D seems to expose a lot of SDL's underlying functions and concepts, whereas DOME aims to abstract a lot of that away.

If you find yourself porting to another platform that’s less PC (eg: smartphone, game console) that’ll serve you well.

Wren has some really interesting design choices so I feel like it’s a good fit for performant embedding.

It'll be a while, but I think the next step is a move towards web. I've built it to run in browsers before, but that was a while ago.

Because DOME sits on top of SDL2, porting to other platforms shouldn't be too difficult in the future. Lofty goals!

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