Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:14:25 +0000
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From: biker95 <biker95@protonmail.com>
Subject: SDL Questions and suggestions
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Hey Skeeto!

I have read your very good blogpost about SDL, and you seem very knowledgab=
le on the subject. Since the tutorial series for SDL written in C could be =
counted on one finger, I think it would be a public service to share your k=
nowledge with others, and perhaps even profitable. Some of the things you k=
now can't even be found in the header files.

Maybe you can make a blog series or a video series where you outline the ti=
ps and trick and teach people how to use the headers, and make a little pro=
ject with good C and SDL form in a substantiated manner.
Don't know about your other projects, but I think it would be cool. Maybe y=
ou can even get the jumpstart and make the first SDL3 tutorial for C. :O $b=
ling$ $bling$ haha. But imagine how popular you would be. I hope they fix t=
he Wiki for SDL3 because it is only marginally better than the header files=
, and they only have limited comments, and you have to literally go into a =
function and see what it does and hope it doesn't address some secret globa=
l variable that you can't find anywhere (at least that's my experience).

Other than that I have a little question about the #include"SDL.h" part. My=
 understanding is that quoted includes try to find the library first in you=
r local folder, and then expand to the known list of places. I'm unsure how=
 this is linked to the sdl2-config script, and how it is superior to the no=
rmal system #include <SDL.h> (unless you literally put the library in your =
folder and want to use that specific one over the system one.)

Anyway,
keep on rocking! :)