Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited for watching Carmack code fluently and for the fast iteration cycle of Racket-based VR scripting.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Meta VR

Topic

vr live coding

Format

demo

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Actually I really like the format of your presentations: just yesterday I watched your live coding session with vrscript ( [VIDEO] ) and it was fantastic because, first, you were showing to your audience how to work with Racket (and some of the features in …

• Checkout the VR script by John Carmack [VIDEO] It's on racket (scheme dialect). There are no language which can make you more efficient. But some languages open your mind. Just read SICP and find out what makes language EPIC. Many big projects are in Php. …

• He also did a live coding demo showing off this VR scripting concept. Having such a fast iteration cycle is very compelling. Hopefully at least some Javascript version of this will exist, even though this seems like a perfect application for a Lisp. [VIDEO] I …