Like watching a trainwreck with a truck full of puppies plunging off a cliff

Jon Blow’s recent blog post grabs excerpts Jeff Roberts and Casey Muratori (of Molly Rocket and the appropriately named Jeff and Casey Show) ripping into Microsoft on Visual Studio 2010 and the new Direct2D API. Both of these rants are worth a listen if for nothing else because Jeff and Casey are often times very, very funny guys to listen to even when you’re disagreeing with them.

And regardless of one’s views, something like this for the basic task of ultimately drawing a few simple objects is immensely intimidating code to be thrown into. I don’t envy the jobs of Microsoft programmers tasked with creating a new API with all the requirements Direct2D necessitated, but at the same time you sometimes wonder if they lost sight of the forest for the tree.