How to deal with openGL deprecation?

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So, sadly most used functions on bgl got removed. I was trying to find examples or tutorials about how to use modern opengl api. but couldnt find anything that use only functions that will be avaliable on 2.8.

Please Help.

I have a simple funcion that draw a line on 3D space and would like to have it working on 2.8:

def draw_line(start, end, color=(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0), width=1.0):
    bgl.glEnable(bgl.GL_BLEND)
    bgl.glLineWidth(width)
    bgl.glColor4f(*color)
    bgl.glBegin(bgl.GL_LINES)
    
    bgl.glVertex3f(*start)
    bgl.glVertex3f(*end)
    
    bgl.glEnd()
    bgl.glDisable(bgl.GL_BLEND)

If so. @brecht, I would like to suggest a simple module like Gizmos from unity api. You have no Idea of how this is usefull to debug scripts that deal with vectors.

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Most recent OpenGL tutorials and documentation will cover this, for example:
https://learnopengl.com/

It’s not Blender specific really. But you probably want to wait until there is an easier drawing API.

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