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Photon vs SDL: What are the differences?
What is Photon? Framework for Electron apps. The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.
What is SDL? A cross-platform software development library. It is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.
Photon and SDL belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.
Photon is an open source tool with 9.15K GitHub stars and 528 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Photon's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Photon
Pros of SDL
- Actively being worked on2
- Cross-platform1
- Fast1
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Cons of Photon
Cons of SDL
- No GUI support1