I’ve sort of skimmed a few posts talking about the drama. I don’t have specifics but from what I’ve read the main guy at Revanced is a bit of a ego and doesn’t know how to code (very well). The people who know how to code tried to work with him, got fed up and left.
Oh no whats going on with retroarch. Please dont tell me that they are having a fight, I just managed to get a bunch of roms downloaded and was ready to start converting my xbox into a retro machine
It’s been a fight the whole dang time. The lead dev is a shite programmer with a gigantic ego and a control freak. He was infamously awful on the emulation subreddit. Deeply disrespectful to the actual emulator devs. MAME team especially have a long lived hatred of Retroarch.
Occasionally he’ll rewrite code that was working fine and break something that previously worked. Like…NETCODE. For example. Broke it and refused to take the L. So the guy who wrote the netcode backend quit out of frustration. That’s just one of a billion examples.
His ego is rivaled by the likes of stenzek (Duckstation emulator, and front end wizard for Dolphin and PCSX2) the guy behind Simple64, and TeknoParrot. Except those guys are actually good programmers, just insufferable.
Hmm well thats disappointing to hear. Retroarch worked very well on my android device a few years ago. Might be better to check if theres other options to use in the future.
Like I use GrapheneOS but the lead dev crashes out on Xhitter constantly and attacks rival privacy projects.
Hahah, I subscribed to them on Mastodon, but a few days ago I unsubscribed because he had a weird, multi-post rant against Jolla. I’m not saying he was wrong but it could have been a few sentences long and got the message through. But instead he wrote as if Jolla was a russian demon trying to take over the world. It was rather silly and mildly funny to see but I still don’t need that sort of negativity in my feed lol
I’ve sort of skimmed a few posts talking about the drama. I don’t have specifics but from what I’ve read the main guy at Revanced is a bit of a ego and doesn’t know how to code (very well). The people who know how to code tried to work with him, got fed up and left.
Reminds me of…a lot of stuff. But especially Retroarch.
Oh no whats going on with retroarch. Please dont tell me that they are having a fight, I just managed to get a bunch of roms downloaded and was ready to start converting my xbox into a retro machine
It’s been a fight the whole dang time. The lead dev is a shite programmer with a gigantic ego and a control freak. He was infamously awful on the emulation subreddit. Deeply disrespectful to the actual emulator devs. MAME team especially have a long lived hatred of Retroarch.
Occasionally he’ll rewrite code that was working fine and break something that previously worked. Like…NETCODE. For example. Broke it and refused to take the L. So the guy who wrote the netcode backend quit out of frustration. That’s just one of a billion examples.
His ego is rivaled by the likes of stenzek (Duckstation emulator, and front end wizard for Dolphin and PCSX2) the guy behind Simple64, and TeknoParrot. Except those guys are actually good programmers, just insufferable.
Hmm well thats disappointing to hear. Retroarch worked very well on my android device a few years ago. Might be better to check if theres other options to use in the future.
Yeah, the worst part is it’s a very useful program so a lot of people turn a blind eye.
I don’t tell people what to use or not. Like I use GrapheneOS but the lead dev crashes out on Xhitter constantly and attacks rival privacy projects.
Hahah, I subscribed to them on Mastodon, but a few days ago I unsubscribed because he had a weird, multi-post rant against Jolla. I’m not saying he was wrong but it could have been a few sentences long and got the message through. But instead he wrote as if Jolla was a russian demon trying to take over the world. It was rather silly and mildly funny to see but I still don’t need that sort of negativity in my feed lol
Fucking lol. I guess at least their paranoia works in our favor? sigh…