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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had (www.windowslatest.com)
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[โ€“] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Once you start optimizing for one aspect, others become less important. In this case, they are doing a few hacks to get to 2.5kb, which do impact runtime performance. A few users report it using 500mb at runtime due to the compression :/

[โ€“] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Well that sucks, although I assume that's way better than the AI bloated version that now comes with Windows.