Aurora Graphics Library Initial Design Discussion

[ponce]

On Sunday, 19 January 2014 at 03:38:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
> Since Aurora has a pluggable backend for rendering I feel that 
> it will be prudent to use the low-level API's that are best 
> suited to each platform. This will Aurora to support each 
> platform as best as possible. As I currently can tell the 
> following list represents
>
> System		 2D API   / 3D API
> Linux		  X11      / OpenGL 4.3
> Android		Canvas	 / OpenGL ES 3.0
> OSX		    Quartz2D / OpenGL 4.3
> iOS		    Quartz2D / OpenGL ES 3.0
> Windows		Direct2D / Direct3D 11
> Windows	RT     Direct2D / Direct3D 11

I'm not really sold on the 2D API not written on top of the 3D 
API.
Either way, I don't think X11 should be used instead of OpenGL.
I think you should target D3D9 instead of D3D11 on Windows.