If you have cared at all to follow the Linux drama that I have created for myself the entry from yesterday and the day before should be quite entertaining. At least it has been for me. It's quite funny really now that I think about it. I started out using SDL3, then decided to use GTK because I thought it would be closer to Win32 which is what handmade hero uses. So I've decided to redo the whole thing with X11. To be fair it was quite the fun detour trying to understand GTK. It uses XML to build UI interfaces, which surprised me quite a bit. It was towards the end of the stream today that I realized it. Only when I considered what I would need to do after opening the fucking window. Which is to run the game loop. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to make good use of my GTK knowledge someday. It was surprisingly intuitive.
I find all of this quite amusing. You could even say hilarious. And it is. It does not feel like a waste at all. Although I have to admit the X11 docs do look a bit scary. I'm quite confident I'll be able to figure it out. I'm still on Day 2 of handmade hero and it's been four or five days since I started. It's already living up to it's expectations of me. This is exactly what I was hoping for. Put me into a completely foreign land. A land which is not like the sandbox lot of the browser. I'm fucking excited. Programming is so awesome.