Yeah, I meant John Romero, sorry. And Carmack didn't leave gaming for enterprise "ASAP". He had a long and storied career in games. I would say Romero was "wor

Yeah, I meant John Romero, sorry. And Carmack didn't leave gaming for enterprise "ASAP". He had a long and storied career in games. I would say Romero was "worth his salt" as a programmer, whatever that vague metric means. Jonathan Blow made two games with engines developed from scratch. I don't know how you think that's "not particularly impressive" for a solo person, unless you have never tried to actually ship a game. With or without a custom engine. I was just trying to pick programmer examples that people would know. Probably didn't make my point very well, which was that there are plenty of programmers "worth their salt" in the gaming industry, and who chose to stay in it. To state otherwise is just fucking idiotic.