Stars: MiniFB
Another library which does one thing and does it well.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Repo | MiniFB emoon/minifb: a small cross platform library to create a frame buffer that you can draw pixels in |
| License | MIT |
| Language | C |
| Status | Complete. Supported. Several commits a year. |
Review
MiniFB is a pretty simple library from a user’s perspective. It only exports three functions. With it you can create a window on all desktop platforms (well, all that matter) and draw to it by simply filling a buffer. Basically coding it like it’s 1989 (Back then people used to just get a pointer to the video memory and simply write each frame to it with memcpy. Those were the days!)
Whether you’re making a simple ray-tracer or a port of a game from the 80s, this library can save you many hours if not days of boilerplate.
This post is part of my Project Stars where I post a short review for each of the 500+ repos that I’ve starred on GitHub.
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