Show HN: Attempt to bring a cinematic experience in 256 bytes (WASM)

Post by danielledias204 » Mon, May 13, 2024, 2:26 AM UTC

vsnf wrote: post #8

butz wrote: post #6

Amazing, considering whole demo fits in URL. Modern website developers should learn a thing or two about optimization from this.

> Modern website developers should learn a thing or two about optimization from this. I'm just as anti-bloat as the next HN'er, but optimizing websites is almost certainly not a business interest, therefore not an imperative, and therefore not going to happen. Instead of just wishing web developers were better, it would be more productive to find a way to align website optimization with business interests. After all,…

Post by arresin » Sat, May 18, 2024, 11:05 PM UTC

vlovich123 wrote: post #20

arresin wrote: post #18

256 bytes ?!? How is that possible. I misread it as 256K initially.

It’s literally in the link. A non-specified amount of code in the MicroW8 runtime which isn’t included in that 256 bytes to implement the graphics layer (320x240 256 colors 60hz) and gives you 256 kib of memory. 256 bytes is the “cartridge” to run on this platform with compression. It’s still extremely impressive because of the creativity of the generative visual effects they figured out how to fit in 256 bytes.