John Carmack is my spirit animal. I like reading his thoughts because they give me strange insight into the way he thinks "sideways" sometimes - even if I disagree with them, I always enjoy an outside perspective.
Just because someone is expressing a thought after you or others have already thought about it, doesn't mean they're trying to push it as something new and exciting, it's just another perspective.
John Carmack is my spirit animal. I like reading his thoughts because they give me strange insight into the way he thinks "sideways" sometimes - even if I disagree with them, I always enjoy an outside perspective.
I don't think this is the first time Carmack been talking about functional programming and against mutability, here is some of his thoughts from 2014: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
Just because someone is expressing a thought after you or others have already thought about it, doesn't mean they're trying to push it as something new and exciting, it's just another perspective.