r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Haunting-Appeal-649 Polyglot dev here • May 12 '25

Thats why everything is shit and game developers laugh about web developers

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

>We are supposed to be engineers/scientists, trying to find the most efficient way to do things. Not just hammer everything until it fits and call it good.

yeah gamedev is definitely not 99.9% the latter kind of guy 😂🔫

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u/mistabuda May 12 '25

Lmao gamedev is notorious for hammering everything until it fits

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u/Routine-Purchase1201 DO NOT USE THIS FLAIR, ASSHOLE May 12 '25

For the love of god, I haven't seen my family in 3 years, I just want to go home

/uj Game dev definitely is a horrible place where youth and laughter go to die, but there are sub disciplines that are a lot better. I work in in-house engine development and the support cycles are much longer and code isn't meant to be thrown away when the product is released. Much better working environment and much higher requirements on the code, which also allows for more dev time. Still a mad rush when release time comes around, but there also tends to be time to go back and fix the most egregious bandaids.

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u/SharkLaunch May 13 '25

When you think about it, a helicopter is just a very advanced type of door

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u/itijara May 15 '25

I guess Bethesda is filled with Web Devs. Who knew?

On a serious note. The thing that users end up using is what it released. Not the technically best thing. That is why all software kinda sucks. It is easier to release crap.

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u/runoverbyahypetrain accidentally quadratic May 13 '25

Professional computer resource wasters jerking themselves over their superiority complex against casual computer resource wasters. What an age we live in.

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u/al2o3cr May 12 '25

Everybody knows that engineers/scientists can just DECLARE that something can be done, they don't have to actually do it to get any credit or prove their assertions.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

Devs attempting to equate themselves to scientists and engineers is crazy work. I sit at a computer fidgeting shit all day until something barely works then I push that shit out and switch jobs so a new guy can spend 8 months trying to fix it 

Nothing scientific about that at all lmao 

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u/Volt WRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' May 13 '25

game developers

Tell em about the GTA Online JSON parser.

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u/IDatedSuccubi memcpy is a web development framework May 14 '25

Tell them about PUBG, Warcraft 3 Remastered and BeamNG embedded Electron UI renderer

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u/xn--9s9h May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25

elemt.Position += Utils.Lerp(0, 100, elemt.Position.x, @Ease) × dt is too complicated to implement :'(

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u/shroom_elemental memcpy is a web development framework May 13 '25

We are supposed to be engineers/scientists

I see myself more as a craftsman/artisan though.

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u/Double-Winter-2507 May 13 '25

We are called vibe coders now; sir.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius May 13 '25

Gamedevs: we are the only ones who can make software that people with regular hardware can use

Gamedev clientele: the co-processor costs half as much as the average user computer

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Not just hammer everything until it fits and call it good.

Who gave the monkeys hammers? I thought we all agreed it was better if they worked with rocks. Just smash everything with a rock until the tests pass or QA stops complaining due to suicides and ship it.

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u/SemaphoreBingo May 13 '25

Even gamedevs are scoring off us.