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Mike Acton's talk "Data-Oriented Design and C++" from CppCon 2014 is the best programming talk ever given in my opinion. A must watch:

https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc



It's fantastic, and also my favorite. And for those who might not know, he was the one who really mainstreamed Data-oriented design and ECS architecture in my eyes.

He previously was also leading the charge on Unity DOTS, though unfortunately it seems Unity is having a tailspin at the moment. The work on DOTS is solid, if incomplete.


Beat me to it, was about to post this talk.

For those reading, check the video out if you want to get a gist how to world-class performance is implemented.

Most of my career has been writing web apps and this talk showed me 'why would someone use C?'




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