OpenGL
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Jul 1, 2026first mention
Oct 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I still think that OpenGL is a better place to start learning 3D”
writing an OpenGL tutorialon “Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learni…”
“It doesn't matter one bit that it uses a slightly outdated API called OpenGL”
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“go with OpenGL, it's cross-platform, old (which is good and bad at the same time) and is the easiest of them all.”
“I recommend you learn OpenGL”
graphics programmeron “What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer”
Caveats and dissent
“OpenGL is deprecated on a number of platforms and down right removed from others. Please don't learn this now.”
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Threads where it came up
Data: opengl.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“Cocoa, OpenGL for graphics”
“I still think that OpenGL is a better place to start learning 3D”
“It doesn't matter one bit that it uses a slightly outdated API called OpenGL”
“OpenGL is deprecated on a number of platforms and down right removed from others. Please don't learn this now.”
“go with OpenGL, it's cross-platform, old (which is good and bad at the same time) and is the easiest of them all.”
“I recommend you learn OpenGL”