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Blog My name is Aaron McLeod. I presently live & work in Canada as a Software Engineer. I work on web & mobile applications, while also exploring game development & rust in my spare time.
The world of web development really has come a long way over the years. In late 90s to early 2000s I learned off various websites how to build web pages with HTML, tables, random JavaScript snippets, etc. Over time we got more sophisiticated server rendering options like asp, php, and then into MVC frame works like Rails and Django. Now we’re writing the backend side as full on REST apis, where all the server does is return data, and the client uses that data to populate the interface. The interface is buil
Building a cross platform game for desktop operating systems in Rust is fairly doable without needing much platform specific code. [Glutin][0] is a Rust alternative to SDL for handling window creation & input. [GFX][1] handles most of the graphics API abstraction for you. You still write the shaders, but I was able to just use OpenGL and get it working on Windows 10, MacOS, and Ubuntu.
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