OpenGL Windowing Library for 2009

Question

Trying to decide on a library for creating a window and capturing user input for my OpenGL app, but there are just way too many choices:

• GLUT (win32)
• Free

Answer 1

IF  "learning c++ part of what you're trying to achieve":
then
IF  "you only want to learn OpenGL with a fullscreen mode":
  USE GLUT //Because it's VERY VERY simple. You can get set up VERY quick
ELSE:
  USE QT //Great library, has many many things that will help you. It is portable, it has a nice API
ENDIF

IF "you don't need C++":
then
   USE Python //I recommend it, it is fast, no long link times, good api, omg I love this language

Background:

I also tried to make simple 2D games once, I started with C++ and NeHe. I knew nothing about OpenGL and C++ (had Java background). The language overrun me, so did OpenGL. So it was a very hard learning curve.

I don't recommend going that way, since you can get faster results by using a dynamic language (such as Python). So I started learning some years later with python. I could get the "rotating cubes" working much faster.