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OpenGL VS GLFW

Compare OpenGL VS GLFW and see what are their differences

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OpenGL logo OpenGL

OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics...

GLFW logo GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...
  • OpenGL Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-25
  • GLFW Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-22

OpenGL videos

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OSBUDDY 3.0 OPENGL REVIEW - Not as promised??

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  • Review - OpenGL Basic (Fastest Review)

GLFW videos

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

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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to OpenGL and GLFW)

OpenGL

GLFW

Game Engine
59 59%
Game Engine
41% 41
Game Development
59 59%
Game Development
41% 41
3D Game Engine
57 57%
3D Game Engine
43% 43
2D Game Engine
61 61%
2D Game Engine
39% 39

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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.

OpenGL mentions (0)

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

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: about 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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.

Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.

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

Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.

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.

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