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I'm out of the loop on game development, is John Carmack a "big brain" as presented on grugbrain.dev?

• fredrikholm 4y ago
  That would be recursivedoubts, the author of HTMX.
  • sgt 4y ago
    On that note, htmx is really cool.
• Centigonal 4y ago
  John Carmack BIG brain. make Doom. make rockets too. work for oculus too, but then leave
  • mandeepj 4y ago
    > work for oculus too, but then leave Not sure about his current work status with Oculus, but he did not leave immediately; turned into a consultant or something like that - from CTO
• TremendousJudge 4y ago
  Not so sure. On a technical level at least, everything that I have read from him has been very concise and pragmatic. His programming advice is always to be as simple as possible because simple is fast. For example, the one I always remember is that in order to optimize that you should try to remove as many "edge case optimizations" as possible, so that everything runs always the same way, and then optimize _that_.
  • exitb 4y ago
    I do value simplicity very much, but this doesn’t seem true. There’s a reason why musl is slower than glibc, st is slower than xterm, OpenBSD is slower than Linux etc. It’s great if the optimization via simplification works out like that, but usually it doesn’t.
• nemo1618 4y ago
  At around 17:30 John talks about Go in a way that convinces me that he understands the grugbrain mentality. He's definitely a pragmatic person who sees the value of simplicity in language design, particular when programming at scale.
• meltyness 4y ago
  id tech 3 is pretty elegantly organized, not to mention Carmack's contributions with bsp, netplay, finvsqrt, sss, megatexturing, presumably the current iteration of predictive rendering used by oculus kit. He's someone who knew the technology and the business top-to-bottom, and likely still does. Carmack is more like an academic than a smoke and mirrors exec. Having sat through as many as 9 keynotes in-person before that relationship went up in a blinding flash, I'll say I look forward to listening to this podcast in full.
  • cma 4y ago
    > finvsqrt Listening to the podcast, that wasn't him, he doesn't claim independent discovery of it either (like w/ Carmack's reverse). It was from someone else.
• googlryas 4y ago
  No, he's a metabrain who understands where one should be big brained and where one should be grug brained