The 'Handmade' part of this is (knowing the author) a reference to Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero [1], where he builds a game 'from scratch'. The game is writte

The 'Handmade' part of this is (knowing the author) a reference to Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero [1], where he builds a game 'from scratch'. The game is written in C++, using nothing but the base OS libs (in his case, Win32), minimal reliance on the CRT, etc. I'd guess they're talking about building programs with a level of care comparable to that project, meaning high performance memory allocation, no interpreted languages, high priority on fast execution and compile times, etc. [1] https://handmadehero.org/ https://handmadehero.org/