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

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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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[–] robertdegallan@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago

We now have more capable hardware and there are different needs and constraints for web-development.