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GLFW VS Allegro

Compare GLFW VS Allegro and see what are their differences

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GLFW logo GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...

Allegro logo Allegro

Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia...
  • GLFW Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-22
  • Allegro Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-09-17

GLFW

Categories
  • Game Engine
  • Game Development
  • 3D Game Engine
  • 2D Game Engine
Website glfw.org
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Allegro

Categories
  • Game Engine
  • Game Development
  • 3D Game Engine
  • 2D Game Engine
Website liballeg.org
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GLFW videos

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Computer Graphics with Modern OpenGL and C++ : [THEORY] Introduction to GLEW, GLFW and SDL

More videos:

  • Tutorial - OpenGL Tutorial 17 - GLFW Text/Character Input

Allegro videos

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A Tiffin You Can Live In! My First Allegro Review!

More videos:

  • Review - IDRIVEACLASSIC reviews: 1970s Austin Allegro
  • Review - Williams Allegro 3 Digital Piano Review (First Look) Sounds -Features - Manual

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GLFW and Allegro)

GLFW

Allegro

Game Engine
48 48%
Game Engine
52% 52
Game Development
48 48%
Game Development
52% 52
3D Game Engine
51 51%
3D Game Engine
49% 49
2D Game Engine
100 100%
2D Game Engine
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, GLFW seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GLFW mentions (1)

  • Need help getting started with GLFW on Linux and VS Code
    I'm on Arch linux, so I runned sudo pacman -S glfw-x11 to get GLFW. I started vscode and copied the boiler plate code from glfw.org and then I tried to run it but I got a bunch of linking/definition (?) errors. Source: almost 3 years ago

Allegro mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Allegro yet. Tracking of Allegro recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GLFW and Allegro, you can also consider the following products

Vulkan - Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.

SFML - SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.

raylib - Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.

SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level...

WebGL - WebGL is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser.

Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.

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