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And even if the speed and memory penalties are exactly the same as they were 20 years ago, you no longer need to support a pentium 3 with 64MB of RAM. If you write code that would have performed well 20 years ago, then bloat it 300%, it'll run just fine. I'd rather have that than just about any electron app.


In fact, in what concerns most of the languages, they scale down to computers much weaker than most of my 1990's PC desktops.

Some examples, one per language, there are others I could list.

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/

https://tinygo.org/

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.swift.org/get-started/embedded/

https://wiki.dlang.org/Programming_in_D_tutorial_on_Embedded...




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