Comment by Chaosvex
11 hours ago
Strangely, I've never seen any nice code from Casey despite all of the mud slinging he's done over the years. Maybe it exists somewhere but I watched a lot of Handmade Hero when it was starting off and the code was a mess.
It feels as though he just attracted an audience of junior developers who take everything he says as gospel, as is often the case with social media programmers. Lord knows I've argued with some of them and they usually crumble as soon as they don't have one of his opinions to throw back at you.
I'm confused. I looked at the Handmade Hero videos and I had no trouble following - it was simple straightforward procedural code. As I understand it, his code does "exist somewhere". Bink 2 from RAD Game Tools, which seems to ship with practically all games. He also developed the Walk System that shipped in "The Witness" (2016). You can see his blog posts and video lecture about that. I see that he and a Jay Stelly from Valve simplified the GJK algorithm, and he talks about how to implement it. I know he has his Performance-Aware Programming series, where he talks about the technical details of hardware and how they relate to code performance. Here, I even found a tweet listing all the things he'd written till that point: <https://xcancel.com/cmuratori/status/1412839131063873536>. Perhaps you didn't look hard enough?
Can someone give me links to Bjarne Stroustrup's code? I tried searching but I'm having a hard time finding anything. I would like to verify some of the claims being made in the other comments (it's hard to tell if someone's code is better or worse relative to another person's without having access to the code and comparing important metrics and all that.)
You've attacked a strawman.