At least partly, it’s a form of choice-supportive bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias).
Your mind cannot live with the idea that you spent many, many hours learning an ugly API, so it makes you think it is better than it is.
At least partly, it’s a form of choice-supportive bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias).
Your mind cannot live with the idea that you spent many, many hours learning an ugly API, so it makes you think it is better than it is.
Sounds like C++ and OpenGL are BFFs.
The quip is that C++ is fool's gold; Flying around in code and getting all the little mechanical details right really feels like getting things done. (It's just wizard- or mastery-flavored busywork. Glitter.)
I've later come to suspect that this glittering is sometimes useful as… fuel? Feeling-of-progress hands-on motivation-fuel.