Nethack definitely has a place in the history of roguelikes, but for people reading this HN thread, please don't play it as your first roguelike. It was not on

Nethack definitely has a place in the history of roguelikes, but for people reading this HN thread, please don't play it as your first roguelike. It was not only my first roguelike but also the first C codebase that I ever played around in. I was blown away in the 90s installing Linux as a teenager and it coming with GCC built in. I owe the dev team for getting me really interested in computers as more than a consumer of games. But, it's creaky and idiosyncratic and has a lot of sharp edges that people who have been playing it for decades are quick to forgive, but if you're coming to the genre from, well, anything else, you're going to get put off, hard.