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0 pointsgameenginz85y ago0 comments

The overhead and complexity of a dozen different IDEs, JS frameworks, 4 browsers, 2 mobile phone platforms, etc etc is less complex?

In a day to day engineering perspective it’s all a mess of abstraction and indirection anyway?

If we’re going to optimize ONE stack, I’d prefer the one with all the optimized rendering and input mapping, rather than hacking that all into a bloated document parser like we’re hacking into a browser?

IMO that is textbook functional fixedness.

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yoz-y5y ago· 1 in thread

For one applications need familiarity and uniformity. Games don't. For example games have exactly zero accessibility support, system actually knowing about what is being rendered is quite useful for it to provide tools like voice over. What about IME?

> If we’re going to optimize ONE stack

Why would we though? There are different classes of applications and there are multiple platforms with different conventions. Different use cases require different tools. Every time something "to rule them all" was tried, multiple niche tools grown around.

jfkebwjsbx5y ago

> For example games have exactly zero accessibility support, system actually knowing about what is being rendered is quite useful for it to provide tools like voice over.

Some engines do have accessibility support. Most games don't do accessibility because it costs money. Same as web apps, by the way. It is not a technical limitation.

> What about IME?

What about it? It works just fine in any proper engine. There are a lot of non-Latin-charset speakers in the world...

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