LWJGL

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Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL)

Original author(s)	Caspian Prince
Developer(s)	Ioannis Tsakpinis
Initial release	4 February 2007; 18 years ago (2007-02-04)[1]
Stable release	3.3.4 / 17 July 2024; 6 months ago (2024-07-17)
Repository	github.com/lwjgl
Written in	Java, C, Kotlin[2][3]
Operating system	Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD
Platform	Java platform
Type	Free computer library
License	BSD,[4] some bindings under different licenses[2]
Website	lwjgl.org

The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is an open-source software library that provides bindings to a variety of C libraries for video game developers to Java. It exposes cross-platform libraries commonly used in developing video games and multimedia titles, such as Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL.

The primary goal of the project is to provide a way for Java developers to get access to resources that are otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing Java platform. The main philosophy is to expose underlying technology as a thin wrapper, thus creating an API close to the original. It is also the basis of many high-level Java game engines and libraries, such as libGDX or the jMonkeyEngine.