Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Programmers: “A System Tends Toward a Giant Ball of Mud Given Enough Time”

March 13th, 2015

I’m one of the early backers of Star Citizen, easily the most ambitious video game project of all time. Never mind that I don’t own hardware that’s minimally powerful enough to play the initial alpha release modules, or an internet connection with datacap large enough to download the final client (which could top 100GB) once it ships. Details. Details.

Regardless, I still follow development progress. One of the features of their Around the Verse show that I especially enjoy is Bug Smashers with gameplay programmer Mark Abent.

I don’t expect “normal” Cryptogon readers to subject themselves to this, but I’ve queued up Mark’s Bug Smashers segment from the latest Around the Verse for those of you with one or more propellers in your beanie. Click through and watch that.

Now, check this out.

Via: Medium:

This is insanity. The way we build software right now is completely fucked.

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