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There is a name for this phenomenon, it is called Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law More recent commentators have noted a corollary - for software projects…

I agree with almost every one of your points. I think I oversimplified my original point for the sake of clarity. If you are throwing out maintainable code for the sake of performa…

I don’t think the percentage of time waiting for input has anything to do with this. Outside of video games, the way most people will see performance problems is in the latency of …

You can actually override the SDL version at runtime, even if it is statically linked, though they still suggest to link dynamically: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/do…

You can avoid the .c file by building the .h and passing the compiler a -DIMPLEMENTATION option.

Software engineering is about solving real problems. The only time you need to write malleable software is when the problem needs a malleable solution. Pushing for everyone to writ…

> These days, I think most users will lose more time and be more frustrated by poor UI design, accidental inputs, etc. than any performance characteristics of the software they use…

I actually think it's actively harmful to hide problems that can be otherwise fixed. If the CPU is too busy to keep filling the audio buffer, the solution is to increase the buffer…

Is undefined behavior really that bad when it's not causing problems?

I think the album "Future Shock" by Herbie Hancock, while technically electro, is a good example of techno's roots in funk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFM9bbfF0P4