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Comment by kshallvari | original | Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
[−]kshallvari · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:03 UTC · link
THE LEGENDARY GAME PROGRAMMER
[−]nchmy · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:07 UTC · link
Isn't that Jonathan blow?

(to be clear, I'm a big fan of Casey)

[−]dgellow · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:11 UTC · link
They are both legendary game programmers
[−]inigyou · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:23 UTC · link
Are they? Casey programmed the walk monster for Jon's game, a brute force tester to make sure you could always walk both ways and never get stuck, instead of building the walking system using a nav mesh. There was one place you could walk where you weren't supposed to, despite the walk monster, that would have been obvious if it was a nav mesh.
[−]dgellow · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:27 UTC · link
He’s known for his Handmade hero series (unfortunately archived now) where he developed his game over 500+ episodes: https://hero.handmade.network/

I’m sure you can find bugs in the work of any game dev you would consider legendary, game implementation is generally very messy

[−]bena · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:29 UTC · link
660+ and the game was never finished
[−]inigyou · 2026-08-30 Sun 17:00 UTC · link
Doesn't mean you can't learn a lot from the attempt. Technical craftsmanship and project management skill are two completely separate skills. Definitely don't learn project management from Casey.
[−]3eb7988a1663 · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:39 UTC · link
John Carmack is a legendary game programmer. If I can identify a superior algorithmic approach to something in Doom, does that disqualify Carmack's credentials?
[−]tialaramex · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:06 UTC · link
First I think I'd want to see you identify a superior algorithm known when Doom shipped and then we can have that discussion about who's credentials should be disqualified.
[−]dgellow · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:09 UTC · link
I think you’re both saying the same thing
[−]arnorhs · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:16 UTC · link
I believe this is referencing a meme on the primeagen's standup podcast, where Casey is referred to as legendary while he feels undeserving of this title.

Titles aside, his talk is really insightful and it is super interesting to do a deep dive on these old computer/programming topics as the modern concepts were being discovered

[−]nchmy · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:30 UTC · link
Hah, I wasn't aware of that. I was sort of referring to what seems to be not such a meme that jblow is always introduced like that. It just seems weird, even if true...

Yeah Ive been meaning to watch that talk - I love listening to pretty much anything Casey says/does. He's extremely thoughtful and fair.

[−]kshallvari · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:38 UTC · link
> I believe this is referencing a meme on the primeagen's standup podcast

Exactly!

[−]frou_dh · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:54 UTC · link
I see it 3-4 times already in this comment section, so must conclude that modern programmer culture = parroting YouTube/X devfluencer catchphrases
[−]ModernMech · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:00 UTC · link
> devfluencer

Thank you for bringing a term to a thing that has been bugging me: people who purport to be devs but spend most of their time on podcasts and blogs talking and writing about being devs, rather than just being devs.

[−]miyoji · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:12 UTC · link
Yes, programmers are exactly like everyone else in this way.
[−]dist-epoch · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:02 UTC · link
No, that would be John Carmack
[−]flumpcakes · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:11 UTC · link
Death-frightening scion capable of seeing beyond the illusionary world before our eyes John Carmack?