Portability

This is allowed by standards like OpenGL, and has (at least) 3 components:

Hardware

You can swap the hardware w/o changing the program.

Language

You can change the programming language and operating system.

Programmer

Programmers can move between projects.

Standards

Positive

They allow portability. They ignore differences in HW.

Negative

They make lag the state-of-the-art both in HW capabilities and in what users want. They ignore differences in HW.