Really cool project though!

I had a very hard time simply using and even utilizing C++ or Java.

C and Turbo Pascal especially was easier because the compiled code was very much resembling to hand written code.

As the author described, you can do in 4.000 lines what others can do with way less pain in 100.

So you build macros, come up with your own library and in the end you kind of build a meta language build on top of assembly because some lines are so hard to grasp that you delegate working code into a library for reuse.

It is funny how much we take conventions for numbers for granted. If you happen to know assembly and its intricacies you immediately will learn to work with a sign bits which mark negative numbers. But how do you know? Maybe you use the whole addressable space only for positive numbers.

Small things that make a huge different.

Nice article, I enjoyed your adventures and would do the same.

Nothing beats Go.

When you use HTMLX (goat) + sqlc (goat) + pgx (another goat) + Chi (yet another goat) and Sqlite (goat).

Compiles to signal binary blazingly fast.

Deploy using systemd service, capture logs with alloy / Loki graphana setup, set up alerts and monitoring and go home.

And you can serve millions of requests on a server with 512MB RAM.

I don't think you'd ever need more speed than this.