Yeah, but then we're just haggling. If you know how to change the belt on your car and already have the tools, it's different from when you're stranded with no tools and no garage and no belt.
If you're a mechanic you're supposed to know how to change the belt on your car. It would be insane if you write code and work with computers for a living but you dont know how to set up a web server.
I am pretty sure I know much more about code than you do, and at the same time you probably know much more about web servers and sysadmin than I do. I don't mind if it stays like that. And I am saying this having programmed my own web server in Java about 25 years ago.
Hum... Writing a game engine is a high-difficulty task that should be available to any reasonably good software developer with a few months to study for it. Making it in assembly is a sure way to take 10 times the time of another low level language like C, but shouldn't be an impossibility either.
Configuring a web server is a low-difficulty task that should be available for any good software developer with 3 days to study for it. It's absurd for a developer to need to configure a web server, but insist on paying a large rent and cede control to some 3rd party instead of just doing it.
Fucking every web-dev assumes web-dev is all of programming. I have always been a game dev, never done any internety stuff, I was never interested in it. I would defo find the game engine task a lot easier. I already know what I would do. I wouldnt know where to start with the server + I dont know what the "gotchas" are. If I was forced to do that I would schedule a really long time for it.
I don’t assume that (and am not a dev - DBRE / SRE) at all. I have massive respect for game devs, since you’re one of the few subsets that seems to give a shit about performance.
I bet you could figure out `apt install nginx` and a basic config pretty quickly, definitely faster than a web dev could learn game programming. “What do you mean, I have to finish each loop in 16 msec?”
