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		TazeTSchnitzel on Aug 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Letter to John Carmack I find it amusing that you mention Pygame, because it's a wreck with horrible performance due to software rendering, it has bad tutorials, inadequate documentation, and last time I checked had 32-bit/64-bit issues. Source: Personal experience porting a multiplayer 2D game Edit: By contrast, JavaScript (well, CoffeeScript) and the DOM was a much nicer experience.

postfuturist on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

Not only that, but Pygame only runs on CPython, which is about 10X slower than the JavaScript engines in FF or Chrome.

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