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- URL: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1457779239004999694
- Author: John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack)
- Posted: 2021-11-08 18:37:09
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The software side of dealing with custom hardware is unpleasant, and a drain on building it and exploiting it when completed. I suspect there would be a useful boost in innovation if there was a library that made it trivial to write one-page C and Python programs that could do \
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high performance interfacing with arbitrary USB and PCIe hardware. You can obviously get it done with existing interfaces, but it isn’t fun, and the loss due to friction in a many-user world is often surprisingly large.
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