"Coding" was never the source of value(twitter.com)

20 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 2 comments

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer(twitter.com)

829 points by apitman 4 months ago | 394 comments

A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.

I know data engineers who know just Python and SQL who make $500k at Netflix(twitter.com)

5 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 5 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta(twitter.com)

506 points by OlympicMarmoto 1 year ago | 591 comments

An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.

"I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"(twitter.com)

11 points by lambdaba 1 year ago | 12 comments

The Goose Programming Language(aardappel.github.io)

561 points by bobbydigitales 1 day ago | 346 comments

An X post by John Carmack praising Wouter van Oortmerssen's Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks, relative references, and binary structure validation.

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025(twitter.com)

492 points by tosh 1 year ago | 325 comments

A post on X by John Carmack about his talk at the Upper Bound 2025 AI conference; the page shows only a loading spinner.

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority(twitter.com)

757 points by turrini 1 year ago | 682 comments

A post on X by John Carmack arguing that the world could run on older hardware if software optimization were prioritized.

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta(twitter.com)

506 points by OlympicMarmoto 1 year ago | 591 comments

An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.

AI behavior guardrails should be public(twitter.com)

329 points by sotasota 2 years ago | 263 comments

A post by John Carmack on X arguing that AI behavior guardrails set via prompt engineering and filtering should be made public.