I don't think it gets a bad rap so much as that it's just not well-known outside a few niches. (FWIW: I'm not in the game industry. I work with high-performance

I don't think it gets a bad rap so much as that it's just not well-known outside a few niches. (FWIW: I'm not in the game industry. I work with high-performance rendered graphics, though, so there are similar concerns.) (Also, MIT license, not BSD.)