Do platforms even follow their own guidelines? And if they do, are those guidelines good? Microsoft doesn't seem to care about UI/UX at all, Apple's UI/UX quality gets worse each year, and Linux is all over the place with each distro doing its own thing. What guidelines are those apps supposed to follow?

Looking at the current state of things, I think it's good that apps tend to do whatever they think is best for their use case. Also, most people don't switch between 100 different apps all the time.

Reading and understanding do not always go along, though.

The comment refers to an article specifically discussing only one aspect of a major historical event.

The French revolution is considered one of the most important events in the history of Europe, because of the great impact it had on the (among others) politics, economy and the quality of life of common people.

Downplaying its importance by trying to water its impact down to "but rich still rich, no?" is a sign, that the comment might have been made in bad faith or without proper understanding of the source material.

Have you ever heard of the French revolution, the World Wars, collapse of the Soviet Union, or maybe more recently - the Ukraine war?

People are more than happy to see someone who brings suffering to others dead.

Of course, I'm sure lots of people would also want to see people responsible for those events be locked away in a prison cell for the rest of their lives, and for their freedom and privacy to be taken away - do you perhaps want to guess why people would prefer that over instantly killing them?

HN truly never fails to make me laugh when it comes to discussing user experience.

You're already too late at that point, and you probably lost some players, that wanted to try your game and maybe would've even liked it.

And I'm not talking about gameplay logic bugs - I'm talking about issues caused by bad drivers or by not having intimate knowledge about the hardware.

> If you use Unity, you are putting your complete faith that Unity has perfectly optimized X low-level problem away at the engine level

Most major engines allow to bypass high-level abstractions either through scripts that access low-level systems (Unity) or by directly letting people modify the source code (Unreal Engine, Godot).

> I love being solely responsible for the defects in my games.

Players do not care about that.

And no, just because people in the 80s enjoyed Super Mario doesn't mean it's the pinnacle of game design, and that there's no need to create anything more complex.

> It took less than a month of work for me to get a polished cross-platform system working on five platforms.

You simply don't know where the bugs and performance pitfalls are because you haven't encountered them, yet. That is especially true regarding consoles with their custom hardware and mobile devices with their abundance of cheap, often not well engineered hardware and sketchy drivers.

"people don't want to watch my AI slop, it's the algorithm's fault!!"

I don't know. But does it? It doesn't seem like you verified that yourself - you're comparing stated recommended specs of Windows to actual usage of Linux.

What an insanely disrespectful take.

ANGLE on macOS supports OpenGL ES 3.0 when running using Metal backend (source: https://github.com/google/angle), whereas macOS natively supports Core 4.1.

And from my experience, there is basically no difference in performance between Apple's implementation and ANGLE, especially for simple things like what the author is doing.