# GLFW Development Question

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425 "2007-05-17T05:30:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425/1 "2007-05-17T05:30:39Z")

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**nobody** wrote on [Thursday, May 17, 2007](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/e5e516ea/#e4cf):

Hi,

I’ve been using GLUT/FreeGLUT/OpenGLUT for a while however it seems as if none of these are being developed.

It’s great to see that GLFW has active developers.

I was wondering if someone could tell me whether any of the other OpenGL frameworks are being developed ATM. From what I can see, they’re not, which means that GLFW is the only active framework.

Cheers,

Chrsi

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425/2 "2007-05-17T06:24:50Z")

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**[elmindreda](https://sourceforge.net/u/elmindreda/)** wrote on [Thursday, May 17, 2007](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/e5e516ea/#acb9):

As far as I can tell, none of the other ones have made a release for a couple of years, but then neither had we until very recently and development of GLFW was still active during most of that time, so you’d have to go ask the individual projects whether or not they’re working on new releases.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/glfw/original/1X/b8cdefe6b61b8d5aee6c43b2c56e9cf5eabecfe4.svg) [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425/3 "2007-05-17T10:06:49Z")

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**[kohaistyle](https://sourceforge.net/u/kohaistyle/)** wrote on [Thursday, May 17, 2007](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/e5e516ea/#e4cf/9f34):

Hello !

as far as i know, GLUT/openGLUT are long gone … only remains freeGLUT, which dev-list seems still active

My advice : stick with GLFW 😉

Elmindreda \> Good lord, we have FSAA, thk you ! Did the platform-independant messageBox() make it to the todolist ? 😃

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425/4 "2007-05-17T12:36:28Z")

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**nobody** wrote on [Thursday, May 17, 2007](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/e5e516ea/#e4cf/a951):

Thanks for the info. I’m going to move to GLFW.

Cheers,

Chris

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**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-development-question/425/5 "2007-05-18T04:44:57Z")

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**[elmindreda](https://sourceforge.net/u/elmindreda/)** wrote on [Friday, May 18, 2007](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/e5e516ea/#e4cf/9f34/484b):

It’s on the TODO but not in 2.6, primarily due to an unfinished discussion on Unicode.