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I don't think jwz (who is much smarter than me) has many good things to say about OpenGL ES

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t...

JWZ isn't saying that OpenGL ES isn't the good part of OpenGL, he's saying that nobody should ever have removed things from OpenGL in the first place, because he wants to port ancient code to modern systems.

Another way to take it is that ES removes too much from OpenGL.

In any case, I submit to the opinion of experts - my experiments with OpenGL have been simple and, when I attempted anything more complicated, they resulted in much more frustration than learning.

"because he wants to port xscreensaver code to iOS."

fixed that for you.

"jwz" and "Get off my lawn" are practically synonymous at this point. He's a great hacker, and a fantastic writer, but his priorities are entirely different from most developers.

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