carmack-programming

What problem does it solve?

This skill helps developers adopt John Carmack's first-principles approach to building high-performance, maintainable systems.

Core Features & Use Cases

• First-principles design: Understand hardware behavior, minimize abstractions, and write simple, correct code.
• Performance discipline: Emphasize cache-conscious structures, data-oriented layouts (SoA), minimal branching in hot paths, and measured optimization.
• Pragmatic engineering: Use unity builds, simple allocators (arena/ pools), and clear state-management patterns to reduce complexity.
• Use Case: A graphics engine module implementing a cache-friendly physics step with profile-driven improvements.

Quick Start

Start by reading SKILL.md to align with Carmack's principles, then apply a simple, measurable optimization on a hot loop.