Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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73 points by surprisetalk3 days ago

5 comments

kshallvari30 minutes ago
THE LEGENDARY GAME PROGRAMMER
- nchmy25 minutes ago
 Isn't that Jonathan blow?(to be clear, I'm a big fan of Casey)
 - arnorhs16 minutes ago
 I believe this is referencing a meme on the primeagen's standup podcast, where Casey is referred to as legendary while he feels undeserving of this title.Titles aside, his talk is really insightful and it is super interesting to do a deep dive on these old computer/programming topics as the modern concepts were being discovered
 - nchmy2 minutes ago
 Hah, I wasn't aware of that. I was sort of referring to what seems to be not such a meme that jblow is always introduced like that. It just seems weird, even if true...Yeah Ive been meaning to watch that talk - I love listening to pretty much anything Casey says/does. He's extremely thoughtful and fair.
 - dgellow21 minutes ago
 They are both legendary game programmers
cuechan16 minutes ago
He is just legendary when it comes to game programming
mberning13 minutes ago
Will have to give this a watch after the kids go to bed. I like a lot of Casey’s views even if I don’t agree with them.
tialaramex18 minutes ago
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torginus7 minutes ago
Personally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much.I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I know, gift horse, but still.
- knollimar2 minutes ago
 If you want a spoilery TLDR: It's more about the journey. He tracks down the origin, finds the support, finds the support flawed, and leaves you to your own conclusion rather than make a new flawed one.The basic idea is that the origin assumes a highly critical inner hot loop, don't assume where it is, and optimize there.There's some other time spent saying this justifies slower abstractions for maintainability elsewhere.