Re: Re : [Chicken-users] other leading Schemes

[Brandon J. Van Every]

minh thu wrote:
> Well, i've tried the opengl egg... what does it lack ?

A window.  A mouse.  Handling of stupid window redraw events.  An OpenGL 
binding isn't an OpenGL windowing toolkit.  You can't actually do 
anything until you've dealt with that stuff somehow.  It's a boring job 
that everyone has to repeat over and over again.  I've been looking at 
various OpenGL windowing systems, but I've gotten bored.

Also, the OpenGL egg isn't for a modern OpenGL 2.0.

> > Granted there are problems beyond Chicken here as well.
> > Build on top of Glew or Glee so that I don't need to do elaborate
> > function pointer dances on Windows?  Build on FLTK so I don't have to
> > deal with system-specific windowing issues?  Build on an open source 3D
> > engine so I don't have to do one from scratch?
>
> Indeed, thoses are identical with other languages, even with c and c++...

Except that in C++, everything is already done.  Pointless to roll your 
own from scratch, if you like C++ just fine.

> Again, those decision have to be dealt with even if you choose another 
> language.
> What do you want that is specific (or so) to chicken ?

3D scene graphs and scripting would be much better in Chicken.  You 
could compile your scripts.  You'd never have to worry about whether 
you're doing stuff "in C++ or the scripting language."  Just one 
language for everything.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every