[Straw]

That author has a history of extreme bias and almost-vindictive personal attacks on the author of PCG. See the reddit comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8jbkgy/the_wra...

And the PCG author's response: https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html

For example, for one of his arguments, he specifically chose a generator called pcg32_once_insecure, which the PCG author does not recommend due to its invertible output function!

Personally, I have read both arguments in detail and I would always use PCG or even a truncated LCG over xoshiro, which has a large size in comparison, potentially worse statistical properties, and no gain- faster in some benchmarks and slower in others.

[benibela]

Well, I had only skimmed the page

But I am using xoshiro in my projects, because I thought xor was simpler than multiplication.

[Straw]

Yeah, xor is simpler than multiplication in terms of hardware complexity- luckily, we have the multiplication circuits built in, so may as well take advantage of them.