[jack12]

Nice, I've subscribed to the RSS feed. A little weird to see such old software versions being used in an article with 'modern' in its title, but I suppose you have to pick a point that's 'modern enough' to have something the majority of people can follow along with when they're all running old software too.

I wish it covered error handling a bit more than just 'exit(EXIT_FAILURE)'. FreeType must have some sort of error code or error message function.

But that's all just minor nitpicking. I like the simple and direct walkthrough of the FreeType API (and promising to include friends from the ecosystem in the future). I hope the blog series will continue!

[daww]

Thanks :) I've used what was available on the latest ubuntu lts. FreeType functions return 0 (FT_Err_Ok) on success or a specific value for each function, but yes I agree that error handling could be better, maybe at the expense of terseness.