absrnd

"it might be weird to store the same point 4 times in a buffer, but I could not find a better way"

Couldn't you use a geometry shader to convert points into triangles (or quads)?

Paywall

In a functional language (like Scheme) strings are immutable, so they are fixed size.

Because everything is urgent, all of the time.. and so nothing gets improved.

Greenspun's tenth rule?