Yes, I remember when people suddenly started writing win32 programs in assembly, as a backlash against the bloat of MFC etc. (and maybe because there was a bunc

Yes, I remember when people suddenly started writing win32 programs in assembly, as a backlash against the bloat of MFC etc. (and maybe because there was a bunch of non-PC assembly programmers switching?) One interestin aspect of this is that we're going a bit back to Lisp/Smalltalk images in the mainstream, bundling runtime and code. (With few of the former's benefits, of course.) Has been done with scriptings apps, of course (Python, Perl, Tcl's Starkits), but with Java and Electron it's bound to have a wider audience. Maybe because we can't complain about size/complexity issues anymore, now that something even more complex is common (code+runtime+wholefrigginoperatingsystem).