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by tluyben2 744 days ago
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.
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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.