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64KB Games vs. Your 2MB App: What Modern Developers Forgot About Constraints | Comuniq (comuniq.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/programming@programming.dev

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Super Mario Bros shipped in 40KB. A bare React app ships more before you write a line of your own. What did they know that we forgot?

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I recently wrote a clock frontend for my NTP server and the whole page payload is less than the network MTU, so it should theoretically fit in one TCP packet.

[–] ArsonButCute@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's sexy. Thank you for your service (providing well developed software within constraints that haven't been relevant for more than like 100 people in the last 30 years)

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I trained on RS-232. What can I say?