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Taha Torabpour

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Taha Torabpour

@TahaTorabpour

Making ARC by day. Game designer and programmer by night.

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Joined October 2022

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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
May 14
Folks, I'm looking for a new job. My experience is in low-level systems programming, based in Stuttgart. Game engines, UI engines, physics and rendering engines. If this aligns with what you're seeking, please DM me or email me at [email protected] Portfolio link in the
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Sep 7, 2025
I think I've written the world's fastest Blender exporter. It exports full levels in 9 milliseconds. Check out this video where I show live editing of levels from blender, and it updates instantly in the game. For some context: Okay, since the beginning of development on this
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Aug 2, 2025
Check out this ARC demo showcasing accessibility features and keyboard navigation. All visuals are ARC UI elements, no shader tricks involved. Enable audio to hear the screen reader.
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Aug 15, 2025
Check out the ARC Starter Kit running in @d7samurai's D3D11 example. ARC ships with ready to use renderer backends which is perfect for when you want to quickly add ARC to a project without writing a renderer and or using it as a solid starting point. ARC also ships with a
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Jul 30, 2025
My talk at @BetterSoftwareC is now live on YouTube! I had the privilege of demoing ARC, our new Immediate Mode UI library written in C, followed by a Q&A. Presenting our work in front of some of the world’s best programmers was a massive honor, and the feedback has been
Better Software Conference
@BetterSoftwareC
Jul 30, 2025
.@TahaTorabpour's demo of, and Q&A on the new immediate mode GUI library he's been working on is out! youtu.be/UULQyRKc6sM
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Sep 7, 2025
Replying to @TahaTorabpour
Also on Youtube: youtu.be/IEuXu7nN3OI
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Sep 29, 2025
Replying to @chandudotcc
Multithreading: @voxagonlabs's recent talk at BSC explains the lockless multithreading quite well: x.com/voxagonlabs/st… Also @cmuratori covers it in detail the handmade hero series: guide.handmadehero.org/code/day123/ Arenas: @TheGingerBill and @rfleury both have great blog post
Dennis Gustafsson
@voxagonlabs
Jul 19, 2025
My talk from @BetterSoftwareC last week is up on youtube. I present my findings on thread synchronization and job systems that I learned while parallelizing the physics solver. youtube.com/watch?v=Kvsvd6…
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
May 19, 2024
Replying to @SheriefFYI
Whenever people bring up excuses for modern software being slow, I always bring up GTA IV. You have a very advanced simulation of New York city running at 60fps, takes ~5 seconds to load and all of this is happening on an Intel Core Duo, with 1gb of system ram. Get real.
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Jul 5, 2025
I also implemented a flow map shader, that I can use to create rivers and water pathways that follow along a path. This was so fun to do!
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Jul 18, 2025
One question I get about ARC is how many lines of code does it take to create [X] UI? This animated Keyboard UI (including the title text) is written in 160 lines of C code. It’s deliberately verbose to serve as a clear, straightforward example of building UIs with ARC.
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Sep 7, 2025
Replying to @TahaTorabpour
For comparison, here is a video of the old exporter that was written in Python:
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Jul 25, 2025
Replying to @TahaTorabpour
Case in point:
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Sep 8, 2025
Replying to @HenningSittler
I briefly looked into it and saw that some people had success doing it, but it seemed more difficult to do, there were some gotchas about it, and a fair bit of the code still had to remain in Python. So it seemed like a better decision, longer term to go full C.
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Taha Torabpour
@TahaTorabpour
Aug 14, 2025
Oh I'm really looking forward to this one! ARC uses @jimmy__lefevre's kb_shape library as the default text backend. While we also provide other backends like Harfbuzz, kb_shape's simplicity makes it the best one by far. It's a part of what makes ARC good.
Łukasz | Wookash Podcast
@wookash_podcast
Aug 13, 2025
Get hyped for the upcoming discussion with @jimmy__lefevre about the **beautiful** world of digital text! Here's a short highlight from our 2h talk!
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