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by teo_zero 429 days ago
>> It's incredible how good of a design Vi is. >It's interesting how this design was forced into existence by the extremely limited hardware at the time

Can we learn that if you design something for a constrained environment, it will shine when the limitation is lifted?

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We're only seeing the rare examples that worked out well.

For instance you don't want to code in assembly Facebook's backend. Blender would also be a completely different program if it was primarily optimized for the 68000. You usually will want different tradeoffs and architectural choices when the target platform drastically changes.