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> Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys

https://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html

This is why he has a bajillion dollars and I have more HN karma than him. I'd rather yell about it!

Didn’t mean any judgement just the metaphor that came to mind

Roblox is a game where you make the game. This sounds like an OS where you make the OS.

Probably could have spelled it out more, being too pithy perhaps

No, you're fine, and I might be a little hair trigger; sorry about that.

> the only real software is blessed by our sacred priesthood of PLT experts.

Incredible how anti-intellectualism keeps taking over the software engineering profession.