SciD: the humble beginning

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Chad J (chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com)'s article
> dsimcha wrote:
> >
> > ...  The other option is to make
> > sure everything is loosely coupled to the GUI lib so it can be easily swapped for
> > another one.  The downside is that this has some tradeoffs in terms of simplicity
> > and probably performance that I don't think I want to make and is probably a
> > classic example of overengineering.
> Is it really that hard to have the GUI libs in question just give you
> some pixels in memory or an opengl context?  Then you could use your own
> highly optimized plot drawing routines instead of relying on the GUI lib
> to do this.  I figured this kind of thing would be unbeatable for
> performance, unless the library ties your hands.

I had considered this.  The biggest problem is font rendering.