Is there anything more fun to program than your own game engine?

is there anything more fun to program than your own game engine?

Yes. Play your own gaming engine.

Slow down user, we've got 12 more years of development and feature creep before we start actually making anything.

yes
programming your own DAW
programming your own 2D CAD
programming your own programming language
programming your own paint software
programming your own GIS
programming your own in-house software that drives other devs mad

>programming your own programming language
that doesn't sound like fun at all

Depending on your niche it isn't very much, but it's still more fun than a game engine, which is even more of a pointless exercise.

having sex

Using a mature game engine to make games can also be fun. And possibly more productive.

REEEEEEEEEE

gaymes are dumb in the first place, so why programm something for gaymes?

that's like saying program a compiler cuz you want a "custom hello world"

Programming something that other people will actually use

Having sex
Watching a decent theatre production
Spending time with your friends
Cracking Open a beer with some friends at a barbecue whilst playing fifa tournaments.
The ballet
Shoving pencils down my urethra

Rya please stop

Not being a virgin neckbeard

Your own forum software until you launch your forum and nobody uses it :(

>friends
>fifa
i want normalfags to leave

Fun is a shallow meaningless word. Fulfilling is more accurate for skill based activities with progressing efforts.

you misread my sentence. kek.

yes
a neural network
it is amazing to see the progress and the development of it
and the feeling you have once it works to solve actual problems is just amazing

I want neets to kill themselves.

>programming your own DAW
Have you done this? I kind of want to.