Ugh same. Very common that I get slightly irritated by folks who blindly wrap something with no real reason other than "somebody else wrapped something similar so I'll wrap this for consistancy". Too many juniors thinking that they need more files/PR due to impostor syndrome...
Having worked in games, my pet peeve is the cottage-industry of amateur game engines and Youtube game-engine series that are pretty much just that: wrappers around OpenGL, SDL, Entt, Imgui and a multitude of other libraries.
Most of those never really produce a game, since the authors know how to wrap the libraries, but the engines don't have enough substance to help making a real game.
A notable exception however is Casey Muratori (of Handmade Hero), who actually skipped the wrapping and went for a more direct code. Interestingly he has a nice inversion of control architecture.
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Ugh same. Very common that I get slightly irritated by folks who blindly wrap something with no real reason other than "somebody else wrapped something similar so I'll wrap this for consistancy". Too many juniors thinking that they need more files/PR due to impostor syndrome...
Having worked in games, my pet peeve is the cottage-industry of amateur game engines and Youtube game-engine series that are pretty much just that: wrappers around OpenGL, SDL, Entt, Imgui and a multitude of other libraries.
Most of those never really produce a game, since the authors know how to wrap the libraries, but the engines don't have enough substance to help making a real game.
A notable exception however is Casey Muratori (of Handmade Hero), who actually skipped the wrapping and went for a more direct code. Interestingly he has a nice inversion of control architecture.