Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
Is Rust a Good Compiler?
Rust has a lot of inner connections and interdependencies so to the point where it's advised. Rust is going to bridle with that you can get it to work but it's ugly yeah well. I think D if D had been opened five or six years earlier it would it might have taken off, he says. "I just hate the idea that we all you need to pick winners"
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You can find Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- The Witness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)
- Prince of Persia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)
- Prince of Persia source code: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
- Sprite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)
- Atari 800: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family
- Atari CTIA (chip performing, among many other things, collision detection for the Atari 800): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTIA_and_GTIA
- Commodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
- VIC-II (CTIA-equivalent chip found in the C64): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_VIC-II
- Skeletal animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation
- GPGPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units
- GeForce 2080 Ti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series
- Cell microprocessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
- Dennard scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
- Amdahl's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
- Embarrassingly parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
- Client-side prediction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_prediction
- Particle system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_system
- Minecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
- Red Dead Redemption 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption_2
- Rewinding time to address lag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Rewind_time
- Chronostasis (the illusion of time standing still after eye movement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
- Counter-strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike
- SimCity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity
- Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
- Brian Moriarty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moriarty
- Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom
- Lost Treasures of Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom
- Netrek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
- Apollo Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer
- Silicon Graphics (SGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
- Time Warner's "Full Service Network" (SGI Orlando project): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/business/time-warner-s-time-machine-for-future-video.html
- Netscape Communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
- Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
- Wolfenstein 3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D
- Ultima series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_(series)
- SGI engineers transferred to Nvidia, ca. 1999: https://www.eetimes.com/sgi-graphics-team-moves-to-nvidia/
- Quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)
- Quake source code: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake
- John Carmack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
- Michael Abrash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash
- Total Entertainment Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Network
- boo.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
- Braid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)
- SIMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD
- Pentium U-pipe and V-pipe: https://en.wikichip.org/w/index.php?title=File:24281603.pdf&page=8
- Data-oriented design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
- Jonathan's rant on Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk
- Catherine West's closing keynote at RustConf 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M
- JAI language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow#JAI_language
- "Worse is better" and the "MIT approach": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
- Smart pointer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer
- D language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
- Entity-component-system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
- Jonathan's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://ww...
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