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

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521 points OlympicMarmoto | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | 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. pjmlp ◴[30 Aug 25 06:09 UTC] No.45072285[source]▶
He got the right to be acknowledged by his peers for the work he has made at GDC, and anyone can make games with Unity, just like everyone can make a novel with Word, now making one without pre made tooling, that is a skill on itself.

Why is such a meme among gamers about Unity and Unreal based games?

Exactly because so many make so little effort it is clear where the game is coming from.