Aurora Graphics Library Initial Design Discussion

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 19 January 2014 at 03:38:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> The choice that I would like to clarify is that Aurora will be 
> a retained mode API. I understand that this is not the best 
> choice for speed and that not everyone will be happy with this 
> choice. However, retained mode API's are typically much 
> higher-level, which will make it easier for developers that are 
> unfamiliar with writing graphics code to express their intent.

What kind of retained mode API is being considered?

Is this indicating a possible change of direction in favour of a 
scene graph model?