Too late to edit, but if anyone reads this comment later please also see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6908248 https://news.ycombinator.com/it

Too late to edit, but if anyone reads this comment later please also see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6908248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6908248 There's a neat part of the article that might better demonstrate what I'm talking about. --- > Because I was young, super-anal, and wasn't on SSRIs back then, I once asked Carmack why he didn't use libraries for common functions that he could share between engine revisions. Carmack's a super-nice guy, but on this one instance he used the "Well, I think my methods work pretty well..." defense. I never suggested coding style changes again. > But, really, for him it made no sense to share code, because, like a bee, it was just as fast to write new code. The template was in his head, he types really REALLY fast—why bother importing something? > Don't take this to mean his code was spaghetti—it was actually some of the easiest-to-understand code I've ever worked with. It has an almost indescribable quality of "obviousness." Like, you know when a really good teacher explains something, it seems obvious? That's what his code was like. I mean, OF COURSE there's a loop where you service the pending events and call a refresh on the UI layer.