okay? This stuff is unabashedly a niche of a niche to go into (as well as most of Casey's other gamedev content). Unlike 20 years ago you can easily have a successful Game SWE career without ever looking at a line of disassemby.

if being an engine programmer or an indie developer making/highly modifying your engine of choice isn't an attractive prospect, you don't necessarily need to know such content in this course.

His oral communication style is quite messy/noisy for my taste, his writing style is also not super terse but I can parse it more easily and get to the good stuff.

Overall the handmade gang is doing a good job, even if they are often quite defensive and sometimes obnoxious.

is it mainly c/c++

I can see some comments saying hes long winded, but he also provides written transcripts with diagrams too if you prefer to speed read through.

Hope he continues rolling out high quality videos going deeper into the subject matter. Overall an excellent course imho.

Usually this is someone taking detours due to insecurity and needing to cover every base so no one can contradict any small detail. For people new to a subject it is much better to over simplify, even if there are technically caveats to what a presenter is saying.

To be fair, this isn't beginner content. This is the closest we have to master classes in game programming. I very much have met and can imagine the kinds of people in the field who would scrutinize every sentence and claim Casey makes. Hell Casey himself is the kind of person that would scrutinize every sentence and claim made.

I don't know what that says about the field and that subset of developers, but I get the angle Casey is going for.

Imho, I felt he was just passionate about the subject and went on potential “tangents” for the extra context. For example, he would sometimes go into some extraneous historical anecdote, but personally I enjoyed these.

But yes, perhaps the format is not for everyone thats for sure.