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Comment by JamesSwift | original | Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
[−]JamesSwift · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:10 UTC · link
Ehh I love Casey and have learned a ton by watching how he thinks about things in his handmade hero series, but he is fairly narrow minded in his views of dev. Not that theres anything wrong with that, for the kinds of dev he does his approach is very good. But its not generalizable.
[−]OtomotO · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:28 UTC · link
Absolutely.

Like I agree with most everything he says and I like to optimise my own software, but for my day to day jobs and contracts it's simply not feasible.

That level of performance and rigor is not what is demanded nor paid or appreciated.

E.g. in Enterprise circles it's still OOP from top to bottom.

Mixed with a tad more functional style due to varying adoption of that paradigm in the languages used by enterprise.

But low level optimizations are not interesting to these customers at all, even though they could help them with some problems.

[−]hirvi74 · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:26 UTC · link
> not what is demanded nor paid or appreciated.

I suppose it is a matter of what one works on, but that has been consistent in my career.

I have seen many be rewarded for choosing what I would deem intentional, gross negligence. But hey, those devs get work finished faster, and that's all that matters to the non-technical folks.

[−]Almondsetat · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:30 UTC · link
How is this relevant? I didn't say he should make a book about his teachings about SWE, I said he could compile a comprehensive review of the foundational literature of compsci
[−]shimman · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:31 UTC · link
Well the comment was about the history of SWE, if you want a comprehensive history you don't focus on the lived memory of one single individual.
[−]Almondsetat · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:52 UTC · link
Where have I said I want his lived memories?