Mike Blumenkrantz, a Valve graphics driver developer, writes about Mesa, Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan), and Wayland, some of it satirical.
HN commenters link his posts in OpenGL discussions, pointing to his satirical manifesto and noting that the Chair of OpenGL role still exists.
I don't really know what to say about Disqus, it always felt like something in the design of its interface was a bit off-putting. For me, Privacy Badger always blocks the embed and I think people from privacy-conscious circles would definitely avoid loading it.
I (somewhat) recently saw a post[1] from an author I like that sent me down the rabbit hole and it seems like Disqus also tends to inject ad scripts into the websites that host it (which, honestly, makes some business sense because they are a for-profit and not a lot of people are using their non-free plans).
In that same article, it was also mentioned in an edit that Giscus[2] seems like a viable solution. In my eyes, it really looks like it's the best client-side comment library out there and when I start my blog I'll try to use it for comments.
[1]: https://www.supergoodcode.com/adventures-in-linking/#first
[2]: https://giscus.app/
You can still use OpenGL. Just not the vendor provided drivers. They are indeed horrible. There are libraries like:
* ANGLE ( https://github.com/google/angle ) - An OpenGL ES implementation with Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11, Desktop GL, GL ES, Vulkan and Metal backends. This is what we used to use for shipping our Qt 3D application, that used a bunch of OpenGL Shaders. We used to get bug reports about various shaders not working properly on various hardware. After switching to this, all those bug reports vanished.
* Zinc ( https://www.supergoodcode.com/do-not/ ) - A more recent, OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan. I haven't used this one yet. But they are making a lot of progress and it is almost as performant as vendor provided OpenGL Drivers these days. So if I ever have to ship a desktop app, needing opengl, I'd strongly consider using this.
By the way, here's an interesting post by Mike Blumenkrantz (Valve): https://www.supergoodcode.com/manifesto/
Most of it is satire, but it's interesting that the position of "Chair of OpenGL" still exists to this day and a new person was assigned to it in 2024.
Another person who thought that is the answer:
https://www.supergoodcode.com/weekend/