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John Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4
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- Recommended by 7 people: 5 on Hacker News and 2 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2013 to 2024.
- Presented by John Carmack, co-founder of id Software
- May be out of date. Uploaded 13 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Programming languagesGame developmentFunctional programmingHaskellLisp and Clojure
John Carmack discusses functional programming, Haskell, Lisp, static typing, and the challenges of garbage collection in game development.
Some of the things Carmack talks about in this video: - OpenGL - functional programming - Haskell - Lisp - Scheme - strong and weak typing - multithreading - events - garbage collection - QuakeC vs Scheme Part 1: new console cycle AMD hardware game controllers Part 2: Kinnect Digital distribution Portable consoles Andriod and iOS Cloud gaming Creative vision vs technology Unified memory PowerVR and tiled rendering Part 3: displays head mounted display movement tracking sound large scale software development optimization OpenGL Part 4: OpenGL functional programming Haskell Lisp Scheme strong and weak typing multithreading events garbage collection QuakeC vs Scheme Part 5: programming Q&A: space AMD vs Nvidia vs Intel GPUs CPU architectures GPU computing id Tech 5 id Software company Part 6 Q&A: PC and upcoming console hardware MegaTexture virtual reality, augmented reality and Google Glass voxel, ray tracing AMDs virtual texturing console cycle beyond Xbox One and PS4 SSD strobe lighting in LCD technology control devices advancement when single person can do a AAA game like MW3? Part 7 Q&A: id Tech5 and Tango GameworksWhy it's here
7 people recommend thisWhat people say. Engineers frequently cite this talk as an influential perspective on applying functional programming concepts to game development.
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Raymond Hettinger's talk about good code reviews -- link Carmack's talk about functional programming and Haskell -- link to this video Jack Diederich's "Stop Writing Classes" -- link All with a good sense of humor.
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What you describe above is similar to what Carmack discussed at his QuakeCon keynote several years back when toying with a game engine on Haskell. Very interesting talk, link to this video
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Excellent read, I still remember a lot of it. There is also the accompanying Quakecon presentation where John Carmack talks at length about all this: link to this video
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I think it is, and if you don't want to take my word for it, John Carmack thinks the same :) There's an old video 0 where he talks in-depth about his explorations of functional programming. It's perhaps a bit more about Haskell than about SICP, but in it he's also quite enthusiastic about what a veteran programmer can still learn from this book. 0 link to this video
u/_scapein r/Clojure • Mentions
…sted in this, speak up :)
Some how this video passed under my radar, but was actually very interesting (I also find him rather intriguing, you may too). He goes in to detail about how game systems can be done in a parallel way using immutability at its core, and how he feels this is definitely a way forward. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
link to this video…
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I'm just going to link this classic talk by John Carmack.
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Google cache: link The article is essentially just a link to the fourth part of his keynote at Quakecon ( link to this video )
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From my perspective the Haskell community is fairly active and growing. At the moment #haskell has 1100 users tying #python and easily beating out ##c, #c++, #clojure, #lisp, #java, #javascript, and #ruby on Freenode. John Carmack is exploring functional programming0, and this is Randall Munroe's second functional programming comic in recent weeks. 0: link to this video 1: link
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John Carmack thinks there is potential in Haskell or other functional languages for game dev, so much so that he ported Wolfenstein 3D to Haskell as a summer project. I think he talks about in in this QuakeCon 2013 segment: link to this video
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Has there been any progress on garbage collection since then? He discusses GC in games starting here: link to this video
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My games development experience is quite irrelevant, however Tim Sweeney and John Carmack might know a thing or two about game engines. "The Next Mainstream Programming Languages: A Game Developer's Perspective" by Tim Sweeney link link "Considering that 8 bit BASICs of the 70s had range checked and garbage collected strings, it is amazing how much damage C has done." John Carmack - link Quakecon 2013 keynote section about GC link to this video