On: Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)

[vvanders]

Except there's these things called game "engines" that have can have lifecycles of 10+ years(Unreal and ID comes to mind).

[ben_jones → vvanders]

"Give a man a game engine and he delivers a game. Teach a man to make a game engine and he never delivers anything."

Most game developers do not build game engines.

[yoklov → ben_jones]

All of the cited developers do, however.