[ajross]

No, I think portability is definitely the worst thing. It's a communication tool. It's perfectly reasonable to want to run this on your Pi or your phone or in your browser or your IoT device of the week. And you can't because of an implementation choice.

I'm certainly not afraid of machine code, I actually get paid to write it. But this just isn't a good choice technically. Though it's impressive and like I said was surely a lot of fun and worth showing off.

[srett]

Ah yes, I'm probably too focused on just x86 desktop/server with my everyday work that this didn't even occur to me, so I assumed you were meaning to refer to maintainability/security.