Well, I've been here -- and this is exactly what the Perl bindings to Svgalib and a few other libraries above do. The idea is to avoid reinventing those wheels, as those wheels should already exist. Technically I could just use GTK2 or Qt or something equally complex, but then one spends a ton of time learning the in's and out's of Qt. Really, I'd just like to scrible on the screen as quickly as possible with a minimum of overhead. Over the years this has been QBasic and Pascal graphics modes, Mode13h from C, DOS Allegro, and of course OpenGL, etc.

If I have to write yet-another-game-programming-library in Perl, I may do that...but I don't want to compete with SDL, per se, since that seems to be the way a lot of languages are going (not just Perl). Still, I'd like to see some higher level 2D drawing constructs built on top of SDL... available in some modules that are a little better organized than what we have today. Something that could effectively provide drawing primatives versus the blit-oriented stuff we have today.

Dunno. Wheel reinvention is in my future. I feel it. That's not good.