According to https://qz.com/268852/neal-stephensons-failed-500000-video-game-and-the-perils-of-using-kickstarter/ https://qz.com/268852/neal-stephensons-failed

According to https://qz.com/268852/neal-stephensons-failed-500000-video-game-and-the-perils-of-using-kickstarter/ https://qz.com/268852/neal-stephensons-failed-500000-video-g... that's backwards: the problem with CLANG was not its implementation, it was that the result was a boring game. As for implementation, consensus among those who've bothered to look at the original Bitcoin code is that it wasn't very good, most likely not the work of a professional programmer.