I share the same feelings with you and all the people that replied. That's why some days ago I started a set of single-file libraries for opening a window and pushing pixels in the same fashion: by writing directly to memory (to a RGB or Indexed (256 palette) frame buffer).
The goal is to have multiple implementations, in different languages and OSs. For example, right now I wrote (partial or full) support (in C) to:
PNG, windows GDI, linux X11, linux OpenGL, linux Framebuffer and Javascript Canvas
The goal is to have multiple implementations, in different languages and OSs. For example, right now I wrote (partial or full) support (in C) to:
PNG, windows GDI, linux X11, linux OpenGL, linux Framebuffer and Javascript Canvas
https://github.com/feiss/zero
(I've just started! expect it to be incomplete, broken, faulty and buggy!)