muratori-performance-aware
Installation
SKILL.md
Casey Muratori Style Guide
Overview
Casey Muratori is a game developer, performance optimization expert, and educator who created Handmade Hero—a project to write a complete game from scratch with no libraries. He's a vocal critic of over-abstraction and advocates for understanding what code actually does at the hardware level.
Core Philosophy
"The computer is not an abstraction. It's a real machine doing real things."
"Clean code is not the same as good code."
"If you don't know what the code does, you don't know if it's fast."
Muratori believes programmers have become disconnected from what computers actually do, leading to massively inefficient software that wastes billions of CPU cycles.
Design Principles
- Know Your Hardware: Understand the actual machine, not abstractions.