> nothing but eye candy IMO, the real problem is the number of abstractions we've created, not the nice graphical stuff. The tech companies would be wise to st

> nothing but eye candy IMO, the real problem is the number of abstractions we've created, not the nice graphical stuff. The tech companies would be wise to start throwing truckloads of money at hiring game engine people and get help with the performance problems we have everywhere. I'm not denying that things are more complicated now than in the 1990s, (unicode, high DPI displays, etc.), but we've completely abstracted over hardware to where it is no longer a concern of software developers.