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John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

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520 points OlympicMarmoto | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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pipeline_peak ◴[29 Aug 25 18:11 UTC] No.45067515[source]▶
Jonathan Blow is the world’s most successful hobbyist programmer. His whole thing is doing projects from scratch. Every game he made could be done in Unity with far less effort.

Most opinions of this man exists in a vacuum space isolated from the real world software industry. Building an OS from scratch is one of those examples.

It’s never seems like there’s a significant reason behind them other than………”I made dat :P”

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1. dboon ◴[30 Aug 25 04:46 UTC] No.45071970[source]▶
It is genuinely ridiculous to say that the witness could “have been made in Unity with far less effort”. It’s easy to forget that people on this and ever forum love to just say stuff for the sake of having said something until you encounter a topic with which you are extremely familiar.