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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Go: Google's Plan9 refugees are staging a breakout
 
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Ghost of Reagan Past
Oct 7, 2003

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I'm writing a lovely, bare-bones NES emulator for shits and giggles. What's a good library for graphics for someone who doesn't do graphics?

EDIT: Basically I'd just like the ability to draw pixels on a screen. I don't need much, but I also don't know exactly what I need, and I don't work with graphics at all professionally. I ALSO don't really know Go and I'm using this as a way to learn some.

EDIT #2: As a Python programmer I want to scream at some of this. Why is there no 'in' operator? Why does writing a for each loop require extra syntax? Why is gofmt such a dick? Give me the gun to shoot my own face off, please, I'm a competent programmer, I swear.

Ghost of Reagan Past fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Dec 22, 2017

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Ghost of Reagan Past
Oct 7, 2003

rock and roll fun

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

I honestly wouldn't use go for this. Go is great for keeping poo poo simple but if you want to abstract over anything, go use a language with actual features.
There's a reason I'm picking Go, and it's because I do need to know it professionally. I wrote a Chip-8 emulator in Rust a while back so I thought I'd step up to a real lovely NES emulator because that was a fun project. Might as well learn doing something I find enjoyable. I mean I could write some database driver or a web service but where's the fun in that?

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