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by 0xy 690 days ago
He fell into the ultimate game developer bikeshedding trap of building not only his own engine, but his own programming language for some reason.

It's been over 8 years between releases, and all that time has been spent building a closed source programming language that allegedly speeds up game development.

Very few studios are capable of maintaining their own engine, none are capable of maintaining their own programming language. This is why, as an example, 343 imploded after one of their leads insisted on continuing with the 20 year old non-standard engine Slipspace. If they had their own programming language in addition to that, they never would've released anything.

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Yep, programming languages are a money pit, that's why all the great ones are open-source