Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form
by stevebmark on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:47PM
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No, go the other direction. Once those kids start working on code that other people use, the poison can cause them to shun compile steps, types, tests, build processes, comments, module organization.
Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form
by feffe on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:02PM
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Hmm, I was a hang around back in the day. Not one of the big boys. But I got to say some of the young kids that I hung around with then had more skills than many I've worked with in the industry since. Going on my 25th year as a "professional" SW developer.
The demo scene is a bunch of kids having fun and learning algorithms primarily. To tell them that they need to write unit tests is ridiculous. They will have time to learn about large scale architecture and unit tests in time - by why not try to have fun for a bit?
Shadertoy isn’t meant to be reusable/production code. It is meant to be a fun computer graphics algorithm place. A place to experiment and learn.
We can take the fun out of coder later - that is what paying jobs are for. Why not have some spaces for fun?