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I know you are a big fan of lock-in, but you are lying to yourself, you think it's good for developers. It never is. And those who support such approach are hur

by shmerl 7y ago

I know you are a big fan of lock-in, but you are lying to yourself, you think it's good for developers. It never is. And those who support such approach are hurting others.

pjmlp 7y ago
Frameworks, graphical debuggers and first class IDE support it is good for developers. Working with caveman tooling just in the name of some greater good, not so much.
- shmerl 7y ago
  Lock-in isn't, which is self explanatory, which leads me to think you are on purpose just wasting time in this thread pretending that you don't understand it. It's not the first time you are defending lock-in.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    That lock-in is called business trade off, which the large majority of the market prefers to compromise on. Maybe you should make a reflection why no one cares about such Quixotic endeavours, which remind me of soapbox speeches while the gaming industry just carries on business as usual.
    - shmerl 7y ago
      It's not a trade off. It's an anti-competitive tactic. Always puzzling when developers defend this garbage. Shills normally do it.
      - pjmlp 7y ago
        Do you think I feel anything to be called any kind of names? I just like to explain how the gaming industry works to those without any real experience on how it works. It was my OpenGL and Linux blindness zealotry that costed me a few interviews at well known AAA studios, back when I still cared for making my mark in the industry. Still, those days left me quite a few friends that I still keep in touch with, and I got to learn what the industry actually cares about. Producing good IP to sell, using the best tools available, with support from platform owners, and ensuring good deals with publishers, eventually even movies and board games from titles. Everything else are just windmills. Now, whatever anyone learns from my comments or decides to carry on advocating practices that the industry doesn't care one second about it, it up to themselves to decide.
        shmerl 7y ago
        You quite consistently defend lock-in every opportunity you have, so I don't believe you are doing it for objective reasons. Quite naturally, usually those who benefit from such corrupt methods defend them. So it's a shill position, whether you like it or not.
        pjmlp 7y ago
        Some people never learn.
- erikpukinskis 7y ago
  I’m not a cave man. I work differently than you, why do you have to be a douche about it.
- dang 7y ago
  Can you please eliminate the gratuitous provocations? They are quite unnecessary and take discussions to shallower, angrier places. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Sorry dang, I lost track of the thread. I will refrain myself to ever reply to him again.
dang 7y ago
You crossed into incivility and personal attack in this thread. Please don't. It's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by shmerl 7y ago

I know you are a big fan of lock-in, but you are lying to yourself, you think it's good for developers. It never is. And those who support such approach are hurting others.

pjmlp 7y ago

Frameworks, graphical debuggers and first class IDE support it is good for developers. Working with caveman tooling just in the name of some greater good, not so much.

shmerl 7y ago
Lock-in isn't, which is self explanatory, which leads me to think you are on purpose just wasting time in this thread pretending that you don't understand it. It's not the first time you are defending lock-in.
- pjmlp 7y ago
  That lock-in is called business trade off, which the large majority of the market prefers to compromise on. Maybe you should make a reflection why no one cares about such Quixotic endeavours, which remind me of soapbox speeches while the gaming industry just carries on business as usual.
  - shmerl 7y ago
    It's not a trade off. It's an anti-competitive tactic. Always puzzling when developers defend this garbage. Shills normally do it.
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      Do you think I feel anything to be called any kind of names? I just like to explain how the gaming industry works to those without any real experience on how it works. It was my OpenGL and Linux blindness zealotry that costed me a few interviews at well known AAA studios, back when I still cared for making my mark in the industry. Still, those days left me quite a few friends that I still keep in touch with, and I got to learn what the industry actually cares about. Producing good IP to sell, using the best tools available, with support from platform owners, and ensuring good deals with publishers, eventually even movies and board games from titles. Everything else are just windmills. Now, whatever anyone learns from my comments or decides to carry on advocating practices that the industry doesn't care one second about it, it up to themselves to decide.
      - shmerl 7y ago
        You quite consistently defend lock-in every opportunity you have, so I don't believe you are doing it for objective reasons. Quite naturally, usually those who benefit from such corrupt methods defend them. So it's a shill position, whether you like it or not.
        pjmlp 7y ago
        Some people never learn.
erikpukinskis 7y ago
I’m not a cave man. I work differently than you, why do you have to be a douche about it.
dang 7y ago
Can you please eliminate the gratuitous provocations? They are quite unnecessary and take discussions to shallower, angrier places. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Sorry dang, I lost track of the thread. I will refrain myself to ever reply to him again.

dang 7y ago

You crossed into incivility and personal attack in this thread. Please don't. It's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html