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I know John Carmack prefers an IDE. I believe he talks about it in this interview with Lex Fridman

https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4

⬐ mattewong

Great resource, thank you!

⬐ karp773

Spoiler: He mentioned the old Visual Studio (not VS Code).

Long video (5hrs+), but well worth a watch/listen. Can increase playback speed to save time

https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4

⬐ beebeepka

I spent several game nights shooting guys in TF2 while listening to this interview. It is long. The channel has a few good interviews with biology guys as well

⬐ bitexploder

It was easily one of my favorite podcasts of the last few years and Lex usually drives me a little crazy.

Carmack himself describes it well in the recent interview with Lex Fridman https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4?t=8961

This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently, especially since listening to John Carmack interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4) and him saying that almost nobody uses IDEs at Meta.

I think it is totally possible to be (even very) productive in VIM. I do think, though, that a person who is productive in VIM would be more productive if he used a proper IDE.

This is my experience after I had been using VIM for about 10 years and switched to an IntelliJ IDE (and actually learned it)

(This, of course, assumes that there is a proper IDE for your language)

⬐ ar_lan

> that a person who is productive in VIM would be more productive if he used a proper IDE.

What features does a "proper IDE" offer that, at least Neovim, does not or cannot provide?

⬐ urthor

Complex IDEs offer a promise (backed by $$$).

Class hierarchy visualization, database schema mappings, the latest & greatest in NLP & code completion via plugins. That "just works."

Ultimately, a sufficient amount of configuration adds all those things to Vim/Emacs. Ditto VS Code on a smaller scale.

The issue is how much time.

I use all the obscure features of IDEs. Navigate to next issue, bookmarks, you name it, I've got it, for large codes.

Implementing... all... of the features Intellij/Rider provides out of the box for JVM/React stack in Vim is... an undertaking.

Don't get me wrong. I love SpaceVim, and if I worked in a domain like firmware, I'd be far more comfortable with it.

Maintaining a Vim config that's integrates every tool I need for JVM and React (and machine learning, and all the other domains) is impossible.

Compare to this Carmack conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

Probably a condensed version of his 5 hour Lex Fridman interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

⬐ dagmx

Not at all. Carmack does these each year at Connect, and they're always fairly bespoke to the things that Meta are working on and just announced

⬐ waffle_ss

He seems to do an annual "update" video from wherever he's at, about minutiae of whatever he's working on at the time. It used to be QuakeCon keynotes[1] when he was at id.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/john-carmack-quakecon-keynotes

⬐ savanaly

That interview is great but I don't think there's any overlap. This is focused on VR, something that was only touched on in the Lex interview.

Even John Carmack thinks "writing good code" is impossible: https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4?t=1351 ; p

I was listening to the Lex Fridman interview of John Carmack[1] the other day and find myself agreeing with Carmack. Essentially, building the metaverse is insanely difficult but also desirable for a variety of reasons. I'm glad that someone (sucks that it is FB) is investing heavily into the R&D to make it a reality.

As for the new avatar, it's just the first draft so to speak. Given the talent at Reality Labs, I'm certain that things will look much better a few years from now. People often have this vision of what VR/AR should look like and will be disappointed that v1.0 does not live up to those expectations. As long as incremental progress is made, it will compound over time and eventually we'll get there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

The interview with Lex Fridman that he was referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=14567s

The entire video is worth viewing, an impressive 5:15h!

John Carmack's view [0] on debuggers (from Lex Fridman Podcast podcast video)

TLDR: He doesn't understand why a lot of SV big-tech companies are hostile to debuggers.

[0] https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4?t=3410

Lately I've been wondering if the army of 100% remote folks realize their shift to entirely virtualized interactions creates opportunity for AIs to compete on equal grounds.

An AI assistant won't be taking your place in the office anytime soon. But the writing's on the wall for AI assistants to start appearing in your Zoom meetings [0]. Once they can churn out code 24x7 without eating or sleeping, glwt.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=14700s

⬐ asdff

AI will still need a jockey

Full 5 hour video interview https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

Previous dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172

Link to the podcast this clip is taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

Here's the link to the snippet: https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4?t=14350

⬐ DennisP

Thanks! Just watched, I think he's really underestimating how many companies are already trying to be the SpaceX of fission, and how difficult the regulators make it.

When he says "you build it, power a building with it, and the government will come around," that's a good way to land in prison. A while back I was watching a presentation at a conference for reactor startups, which warned that the government doesn't play around and will prosecute anyone who fissions atoms without approval.

And to some extent that's justified. The downside of those rocks that heat themselves when you put them together is that if you're not really careful, they can heat up way more than you wanted. Powering a building isn't the hard part.

That said, the NRC is way too obstructionist. We could follow the lead of Canada and be a lot friendlier to new technology, without compromising on safety.

Regarding his fusion comments, of the 35 fusion startups there are a handful attempting advanced fuels that could generate electricity directly, instead of just producing heat. Helion for example will be attempting net electricity production in 2024, without a heat cycle.

Carmack says he wasn't the first to find it[1], and the other person had "done that somewhat before"

  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&;t=2861s

5 hours long! I'm so excited to listen to this.

Video version here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4

⬐ affgrff2

Lex Fridman's Podcast is what I listen to when doing sports, will take me weeks to get through it but I am really looking forward for this episode.

⬐ ChrisArchitect

[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172

⬐ jiripospisil

I posted this more than 2 hours earlier.

⬐ FascistDonut

And yet all the discussion is on the other thread, so it makes sent to redirect people coming here.

⬐ timonoko

Smooth Screen Scrolling was indeed the greatest computing problem of previous millennium. But CarMack totally forgot to mention that scrolling must be in sync with display refresh rate. Many American Made games were glitchy because builtin 60 Hz refresh rate.

⬐ solomatov

Probably the best interview on this channel. Highly recommend despite length.

⬐ throwntoday

The Jim Keller interviews are great too!

⬐ jamier1978

There isn't many people who could hold my attention for 5 hours but John is one who can. Speaks so well about his craft.