Raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogame programming

Most recent significant thread was less than a year ago, so by https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html that counts as a dupe. Reposts are ok after a year or so.

Raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogame programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427300 - March 2021 (33 comments)

Before that:

Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18932206 - Jan 2019 (29 comments)

It is possible to use it with C. Cool. Not that I think it is a great language for the purpose, but is a good illustration of how good the code is or how caring the developers are.

The inspiration in by Borland's BGI is also good. Borland fought hardware limitations of the time and the simplicity of the developed solutions is a testament to what was achieved. Of course, they could be more open and their solution rotted over time with approaches that were later discovered as not being even safe to use, but they were easy to use. As an example, their conio.h is much simpler to use than any implementation of curses.

If anybody is looking for a BGI implementatio to contribute, I suggest SDL_bgi (http://libxbgi.sourceforge.net/). AFAIK it is the only implementation which supports Borland's fonts. And being able to see bgidemo running without almost 0 modifications on a modern system with correct fonts after 30 years is extremely cool.

A small note about the docs, I really like the inclusion of the "cheat sheet". When working with a new library, I often find myself wanting a fast way to Ctrl+F to one liner examples of how it would be used. I could get up and running with this fast. I'm going to shamelessly steal that idea for my current project.

Raylib is SO good - really enjoy using it, great little library

Raylib is quite nice. I used it for prototyping some toys and eventually switched to Macroquad which fulfills the same purpose but for Rust.

I ported Doom to Raylib, it was very nice to use.