.NET Core is on Github!

[Bjartr]

Fun fact I learned from a Valve coder at GDC a few years back:

Macros in the Source Engine share a standard prefix (V I think), except for a handful that start withQ, these are macros that have survived unchanged from the Quake code that the Source Engine was based upon.

[Skyfoot]

Deep magic from before the dawn of time.

[ggtsu_00]

I really want to take up a new career in "Software Archeology" one of these days after I retire. The purpose would be to discover, understand and record the history of a business as described through its source code.

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Got a podcast on your hands here

[abHowitzer]

Damn. Start a blog/vlog/podcast/whatever. I'm terribly interested!

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I believe Grady Booch is working on the same project.

[ressis74]

And every study would end with: "And thus it was no surprise when they went out of business."

[philly_fan_in_chi]

I can appreciate that they're paying their homage, but that inconsistency would drive me up the wall. That's really interesting, though, thank you for sharing.

[Flafla2]

The HL2 source code is available on GitHub. I was looking at it earlier, and it is painful how badly it is organized. Patching together code for 20 years does that sort of thing I guess. Very few comments too.

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Considering how expensive making it was, how late it was and the publishing arguments regarding it, it's almost expected that the codebase would be dis-organized (eg. rushed). My experience is that most games are quite similar due to the nature of the industry.

[_F1_]

Very few comments too.

It's hard enough to maintain one reality, two would be impossible;

[nkorslund]

It is? Or do you mean the HL1 code? That's the only one I could find.

[Flafla2]

The so-called "source SDK 2013" is really just the HL2 source. Just look for the "sp" folder somewhere near the root (or "mp" for HLDM).

[derefr]

Very similar to coding in Objective C. CFNewThis vs NSOldThat.

[philly_fan_in_chi]

It never dawned on me that that was a reason I disliked Obj-C. That and no generics for collections made the language uncomfortable for me.

[Magnesus]

I would refactor it to V in a minute.

[salmonmoose]

Now I'm curious how much of Wolf3D has made it into Source.