Yes the American media overblow some of the issues for clicks. However you can be arrested for speech and it isn't just threats to violence.
> In the US, you have people being literally grabbed off the street and sent to foreign prisons because of their speech with no due process.
This isn't true. Many of these people were arrested because they had entered the country illegally and then sent to foreign prisons. You are falling for the same rage bait media (except it is left leaning).
> This isn't new, of course, I remember some time back I was being told how white people couldn't go into Leicester... while I, a white man, attended University in Leicester.
It depends which area of the city. The University will typically safer than other areas of a city. Most of the people there are students and there is campus security.
There are areas of Manchester (where I used to live) and where I am the only English guy (not white, there were Irish people there) on the street. There was significant racial tensions and fights as a result. The guy that bombed the Arianne Grande concert lived a 5 minute walk away. I moved out of Manchester because I didn't feel safe.
Again not a "no-go zone area", but there are problems with racial tensions. I've heard it is worse in some places in London.
> The UK definitely has issues, even ones related to expression, but generally it's a very free place that does pretty well with respect to it.
As someone that lived outside the UK for long periods of time and knew what the country was like before the 2000s. This isn't true.
There would be more enforcement of this if it was the EU / UK.
Generally anything that looks or smells like hacking or copyright infringement isn't a good idea to put on your YouTube channel. I upload Linux videos and I will not mention youtube-dl (or equivalents), anything torrent related even torrenting legal things like Linux install media.
I am burned out by frameworks in my day job which is basically working in full stack web land and I want to get away from that. So using anything other than libraries is out of the question as far I am concerned. I could have use Unity / Unreal and been further along, but it isn't going to be enjoyable.
I understand there are situations where more performance is desirable and that vulkan fills that niche. However if you are building simpler games, are you really going to need it? If I am building say a puzzle game, do I really need maximum 3D graphics fidelity and performance? I would argue probably not.
I am using OpenGL in my projects for now and if I feel the need to learn Vulkan I will. Almost all the materials online for OpenGL 3.3 are still relevant and unlike web world (where things are depreciated every 6 months) the code still works fine. The C++ linter / analysis tools I am using with CLion throw up warnings but these are normally fairly easily to fix.
I understand that. As someone that is doing this stuff for fun and wants something cross platform (Windows/Linux/BSD, I don't care about macs) with native code (C/C++) it just raises the bar a bit too high. I am sure I could figure it out, but it easily doubles the time needed to get going.
I am a fairly novice 3D programmer (but experience programmer) and Vulkan is much more complicated compared to OpenGL to even get the basic triangle working.
In any-event, fuck this site because people will flag you/downvote for just disagreeing with someone if it is a politically sensitive topic.