Re:Porting My JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason
by dgb23 on Monday August 05, 2024 @09:53AM
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I like this take, but you're saying something different I think, which is more along the lines of "Customers don't care about how the sausage is made".
You didn't polish a turd, you found something that could be valuable to someone and found a way to make it into a polished product, which is great.
But "You can't polish a turd" implies it's actually a turd and there's nothing valuable to be found or the necessary quality thresholds can't be met.
Of course you can. Not really sure why this still is tossed about. You just get a shiny turd with a lot less stink. I've made a career of taking people's turds and turning them into things they can now monetize (think old shitty video tape content prepped to be monetized with streaming).