9:43:54lokeI've been playing around with creating a new backend. It's using SDL and Cairo. However, it's mostly me trying to learn the backend API's. Eventually perhaps a I'll be making a real backend using Qt or something.
9:53:59lokeHowever, there are people who saw Climaxima and have been asking for a way to run it on Windows.
9:54:28lokeAnd I really want to make that happen, but withou thaving to touch a Windows machine nor having to deal with Windows API's.
9:55:18lokeA tfirst I thought tan SDL backend would be the solution, but the problem is that in order to do actual 22D graphics, I need Cairo as well. And I think the likelyhood of anyone getting SDL+Cairo working on Lisp on Windows is fairly low.
9:55:45lokeGetting Qt to work probably has a higher chance of success.
9:55:49jackdanielloke: did you see my remarks from few days ago?
9:56:12lokeGTK would be nice too, but for Lisp there is only GTK2 support. And they're at GTK4 now. GTK seems to get a new incompatible version every 5 years, so I really don't want to investi n that.
10:01:47lokeWith openGL we have the same problem of having to implement some clever raseriser for polygons. However, some things are made easier. For example textures comes for free so to speak.
10:01:53Inlinewhat do you get when you add the backend in terms of gui extras ?