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"And of course you aren’t going to be able to fit unicodes 65k+ characters in 16k of memory." I'd love to see "Someone" do a breakdown on a modern "bloated" pr
by jerf 7y ago
"And of course you aren’t going to be able to fit unicodes 65k+ characters in 16k of memory."
I'd love to see "Someone" do a breakdown on a modern "bloated" program, albeit something written in C or something (i.e., not "Electron") compared to an 8-bit program, with an eye to that sort of thing. Some of our "bloat" is understandable; you want at least some fraction of unicode. Variable-width fonts are nice. On a 64-bit machine, 64-bit words are fairly natural for numbers and that ends up taking up substantially more space than an 8-bit value, but it's definitely nice to not have things arbitrarily limited to 255 everywhere.
Something like a relatively barebones vi vs. The Write Stuff, or maybe nano or some other baby editor.