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[Mero]

Looks like it's been released officially along with a new website. I've already gazed at the tutorial and documentation pages and I'm quite impressed and 2.0's capabilities versus allegro 5.x which was what I was considering using as the main library for my 'secret' project that not a soul knows about except for me and my computer.

So who else here enjoys using SFML for projects and feels like sharing their experiences with it?

[Hoff123]

Oh, I remember a while ago when I tried SFML. I have a tiny bit of C++ knowledge(if you compare to others at least...lol), and I had certain issues I don't want to talk about with C++ and "normal" programming haha. But anyway, thank you for sharing. It feels like SFML 2.0 has been in beta and rc for years... Oh, that's right, it actually has. Lol...

Edited by Hoff123, 29 April 2013 - 03:32 PM.

[Gleeok]

SFML 2 is pretty solid with a good API. Much better than 1 I think. It also depends on what you need it to do. allegro 5 is all c, which makes it slightly more difficult to use, but also lets you get right to the raw functions without having to use any potentially bulky classes that you might not need. Similar is glfw and sdl, except that those you definitely want to use your own rendering for.
The one thing that drives me nuts in sfml is the graphics module though. That's the one thing that promoted me to replace it with opengl.

Overall I'd say SFML2 is probably the best 2D windowing/framework library for anyone just getting started with c++ or games also. Forget stupid console apps guys, who cares what your teacher says!