Agreed - I hoped my parenthetical would get that across but it's worth making it clear that Carmack isn't against different programming languages. He rather fee

Agreed - I hoped my parenthetical would get that across but it's worth making it clear that Carmack isn't against different programming languages. He rather feels that being forced to use multiple languages on the same project brings extra pain. The thing is, he also complains about a time at Oculus where he needed C++ experts to right the ship but Facebook didn't have the talent base for it. Since he says 99% of code should be written in GC'ed languages, it shouldn't be surprising there's a talent vacuum in C++ among modern programmers.