This is not just strained, but wrong. From Emacs (read all the document into memory) to Linux (ignore pre-386 processors, majority at the time) to Java (drop C

This is not just strained, but wrong. From Emacs (read all the document into memory) to Linux (ignore pre-386 processors, majority at the time) to Java (drop C memory handling requirements) and of course any web app that runs on a dynamic language, successful designs choose simpler code supported by more powerful hardware rather than opposite. There's a good reason for this: hardware consistently gets cheaper and more powerful, because it is something we understand how to engineer. Code, so far, doesn't really get easier to write, because it's more of a craft than a science.