John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
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Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#2For e.g. (single process) C++ development on Windows it's probably hard to beat Visual Studio and its debugger.
Perhaps he's a little biased in his broad conclusion because this is the kind of work he often does?
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#3Previous dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172
Link to the podcast this clip is taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#4Amen. Good powerful IDE, debugger, static typing, static analysis and 3 monitors as opposed to a text editor with random plugins, random log statements, dynamic typing and a small laptop screen. Couldn't agree more!
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#5There's so much interesting stuff in the full interivew - talk programming languages, how software is written in big companies, games and history of games, AI, VR etc. It's always interesting to hear about how Carmack thinks and works. He had some very pragmatic takes too (not liking lisps for large projects, wanting to write more Go if he has the opportunity, nice things to say about JavaScript...)
The original HN post got derailed into talks about Lex, and I don't think that most people had even watched / listened to a 5-hour podcast at the time of the discussion.
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#6John Carmack expressed exactly how I feel about having a good debugger. I've never heard anyone say that or comment on that, so it was nice to get confirmation from a master programmer.
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#7For e.g. (single process) C++ development on Windows it's probably hard to beat Visual Studio and its debugger. Perhaps he's a little biased in his broad conclusion because this is the kind of work he often does?
For multiple process and threading as well. I keep meeting people unaware of parallel tasks, parallel stacks, graphical thread dependencies,....
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#8For e.g. (single process) C++ development on Windows it's probably hard to beat Visual Studio and its debugger. Perhaps he's a little biased in his broad conclusion because this is the kind of work he often does?
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Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#9LOL You can’t program in C/C++ without a debugger!
Re: John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
#10I think his views are understandable in the lights that most games developments targets Windows platform, and text editors with GDB were for a long time not as mature on Windows compared to Linux.
His comment on not keeping code in your head also aligns with the fact that most games development prefer object oriented approach to model characters and other entities, and that lends itself less toward reasoning about code in your head as opposed to FP.