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Comment by keithnz | Hacker News Reader

I think this is an unfair characterization, there are some REALLY good programmers, some new programmers, and people at all stages of their programming journey.

A lot are doing game programming, I'm less interested in this, but some are very interesting. For instance...

https://www.twitch.tv/jessicamak

Really interesting what she does, and an insane attention to detail.

A HNer I watch when he codes... he does an interesting mix of stuff and has 30+ years of experience

https://www.twitch.tv/nybblesio

there's people coding games with robotic bananas

https://www.twitch.tv/uselessduckcompany/videos/all

.NET devs

https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz

who also has coding streams with Microsoft Devs

and numerous others doing embedded development, web development, backend dev, security, crypto, Rust, Lisp, C++, F#, Vimers, IDEers, VSCoders, Emacers.... all sorts.

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My comment was based on random visits to /programming and checking out what people were doing.

I didn't know of the streamers you mentioned, but I'd be sure to check them out.

Looking forward to being wrong on this.

I was basically introduced to Twitch by Handmade Hero, and Casey (the host) seems to have brought a bunch of his contemporaries in as well.

Handmade Hero:

Complete game from scratch (nothing but platform libraries). Has spawned a number of small projects, like 4coder (https://4coder.itch.io/4coder) and Milton (https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton) and a lot more: http://handmade.network/

https://handmadehero.org/

Bitwise:

Complete hardware/software stack for a RISC-V computer from scratch (compiler, assembler, ...)

https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise

Sean Barrett:

He's the author of the excellent stb header-only libraries, does the occasional live coding video.

https://www.twitch.tv/nothings2 https://www.youtube.com/user/silverspaceship/videos

Jonathan Blow:

He's the game developer and designer behind Braid and The Witness. He's designing a programming language (JAI), works on that and shows off features, as well as doing game development, on his channel. (And occasionally playing games.)

https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 with no schedule VODs: https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos

Martin "quill18" Glaude:

He's primarily a game streamer, but also a consistent Ludum Dare participant, with some high placement in many of them. He has a series of programming videos.

https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 Vods: https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18creates/videos

They have different approaches, but mostly ignore the chat during the stream, but often the chat has very bright folks who can help out.

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