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> Casey demonstrated... and it ought to be obvious... that the "ins-and-outs" of Direct2D don't matter. I don't know what this means. Casey clearly uses Direct
by johnfn 4y ago
> Casey demonstrated... and it ought to be obvious... that the "ins-and-outs" of Direct2D don't matter.
I don't know what this means. Casey clearly uses Direct2D in his repo. If he were to demonstrate that Direct2D doesn't matter, he shouldn't have used it.
> Your comment is almost a parody of what went down.
There are thousands of programmers out there who haven't built a terminal as fast as RefTerm, and then there's Casey Muratori. If a hundred more Refterms show up tomorrow, I'll happily change my mind. Heck, you can even prove me wrong by coding one up yourself, if you'd like!
- jiggawatts 4y agoHe artificially constrained refterm to use DirectText specifically, because that's what the Windows Terminal team was using, and Casey wanted to prove that this could be made performant. The specific argument the Microsoft guys were making was that DirectText/Direct2D had inherent limitations that fundamentally prevented certain scenarios running fast, such as a mix of many different colours. Casey proved them wrong, but to do that he had to use the same underlying libraries so as not to be seen as somehow "cheating".