Comment by whstl

I disagree with this assessment.

After 30 years participating in Gamedev communities I feel like the "don't build an engine" was always an empty strawman aimed at nobody in reality.

The Venn diagram between the people interested in technical aspects of an engine and in also shipping a game is probably composed of a few hundred individuals, most of them working for studios.

The "kid that wants to make an engine to make an MMO" is gonna do neither. It's just a meme.

I shouldn't really care about it myself, but I do because Unity sucked the air out of every gamedev discussion and now there are almost no spaces to discuss anything advanced (even if it's applicable to Unity/Unreal/Godot).