Go-gl: Massive Overhaul

I started go-gl (the github organisation) with the intent of things never breaking underfoot. I'm really proud of what other people in the community have subsequently brought to the table over the last three years.

It was not a decision taken lightly and these changes had wide agreement from all of the maintainers of the go-gl projects old and new. Sadly this big change causes some temporary breakage for code in the wild (you just need to change /go-gl/ to /go-gl-legacy/ in the import path), but it's for the benefit of all future code. Hopefully it won't be necessary again for a long while.

To save you the searching and reading, glfw is a lightweight cross-platform library for opening windows, and getting input: opengl specifies only rendering in framebuffers, so you need something else to open the windows and get input.

Is there any planned interaction between go-gl and https://github.com/golang/mobile/ ? The Go developers seem to have written some useful OpenGL related libraries, particularly http://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/sprite .

I understand the change from methods to functions to match OpenGL, but the old bindings (go-gl/gl) were easy to use and much better than writing C. I just dont see why I'd use Go over C for this now the syntax is pretty much exactly the same.