Code review of the EGL crate // Lib.rs

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0.2.7 (current) Rating: Negative + Unmaintained Thoroughness: None Understanding: Medium

by MaulingMonkey on 2020-07-23

AVOID. This crate is unsound as fuck, and abandoned.

Alternatives:

khronos-egl is a sounder, maintained fork.
egli is an alternative, supposedly sound API with low and high level APIs.
glutin_egl_sys uses gl_generator to provide low level unsafe API structs.

https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/rust-reviews/blob/master/reviews/egl.md

Issue: High (none)

Unsound as heck, unmaintained.

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