Comment by KRAKRISMOTT
1 year ago
This is probably his last attempt at leaving a legacy given his age. I wonder if Wolfram would do something similar.
1 year ago
This is probably his last attempt at leaving a legacy given his age. I wonder if Wolfram would do something similar.
There is a lot to learn from him; tiny binaries, super fast performance; programming style you like or don't, that's fine. To have a 200kb binary that's a programming language + database is very nice. It's great we can study a part of it and probably more in the future. We went overboard with bloating and complexity; it's good to be shown you can write current enterprise/commercial products that fits in the memory of an 80s homecomputer without changing your style of programming or tools you use for it. IMHO anyway.
Sadly this isn't the norm.
Imho software size should reflect complexity of the problem domain. Not arbitrary metrics like say, the capabilities of a system executing it.
So "Hello World!" should weigh in at mere bytes. Not KBs or even MBs.