What asiachick wrote below. Muratori has demonstrated to me one time too many that he hasn't a got a clue about the things he's talking about. To be precise:

What asiachick wrote below. Muratori has demonstrated to me one time too many that he hasn't a got a clue about the things he's talking about. To be precise: He may or may not have a clue about some things he's talking about, but I don't know enough about them to form an opinion. But in more than one occasions he went on to talk (sometimes at great length) about things where I know he's mostly or completely wrong in what he said. I don't have a way to know the scope of these things, the things he doesn't know or understand yet talks about. Maybe it's just when it comes to "systems programming". Maybe it's everything that isn't game design and programming. And maybe he's wrong about games too. As I said, I don't know enough to judge everything he says, but the things I was able to judge convinced me not to trust him and his opinions. And since I can't set the scope safely, I have to not trust him regarding everything. For example, while his post[1][2] on ETW being "the worst API ever made" is slightly amusing and has _some_ good points, it mostly demonstrates: (a) Inability or unwillingness to read the documentation. It would have saved most of his problems. But let's say that to criticize the _design_ of an API we can disregard that for a moment. (b) Inability or unwillingness to pick the right tool for the task or pure trolling. (c) Worst of all: Complete lack of understanding of the goals, purposes, limitation, design goals and tradeoffs of the system. You can't criticize the design as being too complicated, while offering an irrelevant alternative for a "glorified memcpy()" (his words), when you don't understand what it does or what it's supposed to do. (I emphasize again: I'm not saying the API is a paragon API design and that all is perfect there. I am saying the criticism is both grossly exaggerated and demonstrates misunderstanding of what the API actually does.) After a couple of those I don't trust him and you shouldn't either but you're welcome to. [1] https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0025 https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0025 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146124 See the discussion there.