I did no edits after your comment has appeared. Yep, I did edits, but your reply was not visible to me while I did these. Sometimes HN delays replies and you're accusing me of things I'm not. That's not nice.

> writing cool effects for the demo scene is very different to writing software for a business which has to offset developer costs against software sales and delivery deadlines.

The point is not "cool effects" and "infinite time" though. If we continue about talking farbrausch, they are not bunch of nerds which pump out raw assembly for effects. They have their own framework, libraries and whatnot. Not dissimilar to business software development. So, their code is not that different from a business software package.

For the size, while you can't fit a whole business software package to 64kB, you don't need to choose the biggest and most inefficient library "just because". Spending a couple of hours more, you might find a better library/tool which might allow you to create a much better software package, after all.

Again, for the third time, while safety nets and other doodads make software packages bigger, cargo culting and worshipping deadlines and ROI more than the product itself contributes more to software bloat. That's my point.

Oh I overlooked this gem:

> I have friends who are doctors but that doesn’t mean I should be giving out medical advice ;)

Yet, we designed some part of that thing together, and I had the pleasure of fighting with GPU drivers with them trying to understand what it's trying to do while neglecting our requests from it.

IOW, yep, I didn't wrote one, but I was neck deep in both of them, for years.