Ugh... found the answer in this thread...

Why are bytes in Java typically AND'ed with 0xFF? I've come across this thing multiple times when it comes to (primarily) graphics code, but also in file reading and things like it.

I may participate, not sure at all though. Depends on whether the theme is simple enough for me to bother.

Well, disease is only a problem if you're alive, so if you're dead, no problems

Apart from the language choice (ugh, JavaScript), I think that you've made an excellent choice with the dynamic nature of the project.

You wrapping OpenGL in other methods is probably why the OP got confused.

Yes, that is true to some extent, and I think it is important that voters oppose this. Banks in general disgust me.

Taxes take a chunk out of your monthly gain, but without them, your government couldn't afford to invest in health care, roads, pensions, and a whole lot of other services and infrastructure that you use. Without taxes, you would have to pay a lot of money for various insurances, even more than you already do. I consider taxes the least evil alternative there is.

Pardon me for this unforgivable mistake.

FWIW if you double those stats you can be a Swedish crown millionaire.

There aren't really that many good books on game programming with Java. I would advise you to pick up a book on Java and go into game development when you've learned how to use the language.

Only meat isn't that bad for you, or your teeth, unlike chocolate.

Isn't most common sense based on careful observation and experimentation anyway?

Although I believe that if I ever decided to write an FPS, this thread and Goussej's source code repo would be the first two places I would go. Maybe some Doom and/or Quake source code repositories as well.

I really need to write this down and use it when somebody asks me what exactly game programming is about.

I wish they would have included variations of the collections classes that are tailored towards the primitives as well. Or just not failed so badly with generics.

There's probably some great container for these kinds of things, but I have no idea.

This basically allocates 64 kilobytes of memory. I can't help but feel like it's wasteful.

I found that the question was already answered in this thread, so I guess I should say thank you for reminding me to look on the LWJGL forums as well!

EDIT: On a further note, after a bit of rummaging in the LWJGL Ant targets, I found nothing of generating the JNI and wrapper classes, only compiling the native code. Any input?

As in title. I was wondering, how are the bindings for the actual functions of OpenAL/CL/GL generated?

The author of the Google Code files say Lasse Skogland, are you Scandinavian (perhaps even Swedish) by any chance?

Or maybe you could give them a medal?

I prefer Java over C/C++ because it's easier to add modding support with Java, Java has strict conventions, Java IDEs are much better than C/C++ ones, even Eclipse CDT, Java has a load of libraries, and almost all libraries are easy to use and cross-platform.

A final note is that with Java, you do not need to recompile with a new compiler for each platform.

Indeed, I found the decision to use Java for mobile development in the first place stupid. The argument that there is an established developer community around Java isn't a very good one either, the same thing exists for C/C++.

Ah, I can't argue with that. Though Maya and Photoshop are more of an artists tools than a programmer's.

You are doing mobile development, which is not what I was talking about, and not relevant to the argument at all. I see no point in replying to your attempt to twist this argument from an argument about development platforms into an argument about development platforms for mobile games and applications.

Before I quit, however, I must comment on how slow you really think it is. I have Eclipse running with incremental compiling and I can see my changes almost instantaneously (about one and a half second for LWJGL to create the display, and all data and media to be loaded), though I am not doing mobile dev. Some rough specs of this tiny machine include a 2.5GHz processor and 2GB of RAM, running OS X 10.8.

I really don't see how I am comparing apples and oranges when I'm talking about two programming ecosystems, Unix-like and Windows. Talking about Unix is relevant as that includes the Mac, Linux and BSD operating systems, and I argument that Mac is a better programming platform because you can access all these tools natively without having to rely on Cygwin for them.

I really don't see how programmers need fast machines more than any other profession, in fact, it might be beneficial for you, as a developer, to write and test your code on a computer that performs worse than the computer you would normally use. Compiling and debugging times, yes, but incremental compilation greatly eases the first.

As for the price of Macs, yes, it's high. That's right. I wouldn't encourage anyone to spend their hard-earned money on one unless they were an Apple fanboy, and then there's no use in discouraging them from it. But, as I argued earlier, a computer doesn't have to have top-specs to be viable as a development machine.

If you find Mac development frustrating, then I think you must be doing something wrong, as I don't find it more frustrating than programming anywhere else, that is, a bit every now and then. I have also programmed a little bit of everything a little bit of everywhere, but that's not relevant at all.

I remember when I was even smaller, I couldn't register to these forums because I wasn't experienced enough to solve the various problems I had to solve to register. That part probably saved you all a month or so of newbie questions whose solutions were all readily available on the internet.

If you absolutely must use LWJGL on Mac 10.7+ and use Java 7, you can checkout some of the links here. From what I've seen a lot of things seem to work.

I disagree that Mac is a bad development platform. XCode and Visual Studio are both bad in my eyes, but if you are going to do C/C++ development, the Unix(-like) ecosystem is really a great one for development. In particular, I appreciate package managers and often wish there was an equivalent on Windows that didn't suck. I think it's funny how you talk about the superior tooling of C++, when you also talk about developing on Windows. I find the set of tools for software development to be lacking on Windows when compared to other operating systems, operating system families, platforms, whatever.

Also, if you have only ever developed software on a Windows computer, then you have no right to have an opinion. I can't say that I find the taste of alcohol gross because I haven't tried it (oh, I'm so innocent), and if I did, it would be childish and it would show that I rely all too much on first impressions.

No, the problem is on your part. This site has always been extremely fast for me, even though I have an internet connection on the lower half scale of decent, and it loads lightning fast.