Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly

Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly by jebblue on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:37PM (#6843698)

>> I just wish there was a place for those of us who appreciate the craft to hang out. Hacker News, for a long time, was that place for me.

I still don't get what you're talking about, you like to look at and admire code like it's art? Can you give an example of code that gives you satisfaction to just look at it regardless what it does?

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Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly by Fr0styMatt on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:13PM (#6844157)

Since we're talking about Carmack in this thread.... Fabien Sanglard does some excellent reviews of code from ID... see for example:

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/

There's actually a movement that studies code in the way you'd examine a literary work (Critical Code Studies). Sure it's very abstract, but it can be fun, see for example this book:

http://10print.org/

You could also look at livecoding - they treat coding as a performance art. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSGKEy8vHqg

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Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly by cocoflunchy on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @08:19PM (#6844421)

This: http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/i... is a perfect example of what you're asking for (for me of course).

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