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by arnvald 65 days ago
Will they? Will someone have enough time, skill and dedication to maintain it? I don’t think using AI will by itself make a big enough difference, it’s still a lot of work to maintain a project
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> I don’t think using AI will by itself make a big enough difference, it’s still a lot of work to maintain a project

I think you are wrong. The "a lot of work maintaining a project" would be reduced, specially issues investigation, code improvement, security issues detection and fixes. SDL isn't a that relevant project, but "ban AI-written commit" - which reading the issue, sounds more like ban "AI usage" - is counterproductive to project.

> SDL isn't a that relevant project,

SDL is kinda the king of “I want graphic, but not enough to bring a whole toolkit, or suffer with opengl”. I have a small digital audio player (shangling m0) where the whole interface is built with SDL.

> SDL isn't a that relevant project

Unreal 5 uses SDL to be able to create "windows" in a cross platform manner (specific use case, but not just a thing on Linux [1]). Many others do as well.

[1] https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/updati...

>SDL isn't a that relevant project

Many, many things use SDL. It's one of those bottom pieces in the Jenga tower of infrastructure dependency[0].

Not maintained by some random person (that would be Sean Barret's STB library) but still, it seems irrelevant only because it's already ubiquitous.

[0]https://xkcd.com/2347/