#askmastodon: How much could we get done with a 2 year moratorium on 'frameworks' dev?
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#askmastodon: How much could we get done with a 2 year moratorium on 'frameworks' dev?
I pose this hypothetical as relentless app-framework/engine producer (jMonkeyEngine, Amethyst engine, Bones engine, Leaf protocol..) who would kinda love to just be told from up high: “no more middleware polishing, make the app/game!”.
I’m the guy who’s telling everyone ‘make a game, not an engine’ while relentlessly churning out all engines and no completed games/apps
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Erlend Sogge Heggenreplied to Erlend Sogge Heggen last edited by
And we the guys (non-gendered) are legion.
There’s so many of us developing tools primarily made for *other developers*, sometimes I wonder if we’ve gotten way too spoiled by the glut of capital in our industry. Are we getting the Job to Done?
I’d give us (all techies) a D+ right now. Still so much toy-making rather than tool-making. So much goofing around when we’ve got so little time left to build more preparedness and robustness into our systems before resources start getting more scarce.
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Erlend Sogge Heggenreplied to Erlend Sogge Heggen last edited by [email protected]
But we’re out here chillin’ and building cool shit for our fellow techies only, as opposed to building solutions for all our neighbors equally, most of which are statistically under much greater duress than us.
So just as a thought exercise, as admissions or roasts etc., can you imagine the amount of Very Useful Right Now stuff we could get done if we just agreed ‘alright, let’s pretend we just had to work for the next two years with the exact stack we’re using now.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Erlend Sogge Heggen last edited by
@erlend presumably the people rolling new protocols are doing it because the existing protocols don't permit the kind of apps they want to build. So I doubt that just waving a magic wand and ending work on protocols would help much. The people doing that would just leave the space, not flood into building more of the same kind of apps they don't want.
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Erlend Sogge Heggenreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus yep, that is one of the very legitimate answers, and there are several!
If I’m pointing any finger at all, it’s only pointed at myself. I have many good answers as well, as do my peers/collaborators.
I don’t know what to call what I’m doing here other than “meditative venting”
