5 engineers on Hacker News describe using DirectX first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“directx not working with pre-packaged drivers (had to download over 600 megs of video drivers”
regret · personal · hippich · 2012-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“DirectX12 (which we switched to just this week)”
neutral · production · 59nadir · 2025-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It even introduced me to 2D/3D graphics because you can use DirectX/DirectDraw directly.”
neutral · personal · nom · 2016-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This thing was written using a proprietary extension library to MFC plus some creative use of DirectX.”
neutral · production · pmjordan · 2010-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use the latest MS APIs (DirectX 10.1, DirectCompute and .NET 4) to get the best native performance targeting modern Win7 PCs.”
neutral · production · clabs · 2010-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?