1st_C_Lord, 8 months ago

@demofox I often wonder if I just have too high standards but the spartan engine is so well written compared to production engines, it is possible, although admittedly it is short a lot of features

demofox, 8 months ago

@1st_C_Lord we need more engines like that. Get new ideas going, make competition for the big guys, that's great :)

dougmerritt, 8 months ago

@demofox Right, but I think you need to write a HowTo guideline/manifesto to point out to others what is obvious to you

demofox, 8 months ago

@dougmerritt A normal distribution comes when you sum a bunch of other distributions together. This also happens with engineers.
Semi serious response, but large teams make large, mediocre software imo.

dougmerritt, 8 months ago

@demofox Central Limit Theorem, right.

As for large teams being mediocre teams, I've certainly seen that, and it's famous, but it didn't occur to me that that was another instance of the Central Limit Theorem!

brainwagon, 8 months ago

@demofox All programming is like that now. Most of programming now is trying to figure out how to glue large, inscrutable libraries (often with their own large, inscrutable list of dependencies) together. The actual portion of code which does something other than copy arguments from one library to another has become a smaller and smaller portion.