Opengl is a weird edge case because the way it links into c programs is cursed. GLAD GLUT and GLFW just make using opengl itself easier by doing all of the library loading automatically. Because there are so many versions of opengl you have to load the specific one you want at runtime, alongside all the separate extension libraries that may or may not be in different binaries, directories, etc.

OpenGL is the exception and not the rule in the normal library - api - program paradigm.

When you work in customer facing service long enough you start to develop a strange type of charisma that makes old people really like you

I’ve been using some schematics I’ve dug up from the 90’s internet, most of the hard part is learning the dark magic rituals you need to perform in order to make sense of how the things actually function, it’s very complicated and I was way in over my head when I started, but after a few years of failing a whole lot I’ve gotten somewhere lol

Ah it’s not particularly a serious game dev server, it was just one of the many passing events on a public trans server. Itchio has a list of currently active game jams and teams if they’re interested in looking there.

And yeah I have heard of VCV, I’m actually doing the hard route and building my own eurorack setup from scratch, like schematic and perfboard kinda scratch so it’s taking a while to get enough experience to make a reliable module (I had about 5 done and dusted when I accidentally exploded them but that’s a story for a different time.)

It was a little one for a discord server, they were quite forgiving on the time frame so the process was fairly relaxed. I mostly do programming so that’s generally what I focused on.

Also I’ve been listening to a lot of of my 70’s and 80’s cassette collection so some of that early synth sound is rubbing off on me I think

I liek square

Those labels came from when I was editing the synth settings and the Triple Oscillator has a tendency to be WAY too loud because it mixes all three channels as 100% + 100% + 100% instead of 33% + 33% + 33%, so it kept blowing my ears out when I was putting new ones in lol