Naughty Dog’s late PS3 era code was very similar to modern task/job based parallel code. That really was the start of the modern era of multitasking. Compared

Naughty Dog’s late PS3 era code was very similar to modern task/job based parallel code. That really was the start of the modern era of multitasking. Compared to today, the Cell really isn’t so complex — we have just as many or more cores, we have GPU programming (and low level APIs with manual data moving and what not). It’s just that the cell came out in a world where dual core had just became the norm and people hadn’t really accustomed to it yet. It was ahead of its time. And a new architecture meant immature tooling.