On: The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D

[daeken]

OpenGL doesn't have a teapot primitive -- common misconception. GLUT (the OpenGL utility toolkit) provides glut[Solid/Wire]Teapot for convenience, but that's by no means core OpenGL; it just backends to a bunch of quads.

[marshray → daeken]

True, but without GLUT or an equivalent utility library (hit or miss) you're writing even more scaffolding code. Much more.