RollerCoaster Tycoon was written by one person, in assembly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_(video_game)
Chris Sawyer wrote ~99% of it in x86 assembly. Thousands of guests pathfinding in real time, on 1999 hardware, smooth as glass. Meanwhile my todo app ships 4MB of JavaScript. We've gained so much and lost a little something too.
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this and the demoscene are proof that constraints are a creative technology. infinite resources produce 4MB todo apps; 64k produces miracles