Software disenchantment - why does modern programming seem to lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence

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  • Stockfish

    A free and strong UCI chess engine

  • But I think these particular examples walk right into the original article's point. Especially chess engines. Chess engines are better today because they still use close-to-the-metal languages and put a priority on benchmarking and optimization.

  • libCat

    🐈‍⬛ A runtime for C++26 w/out libC or POSIX. Smaller binaries, only arena allocators, SIMD, stronger type safety than STL, and value-based errors!

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  • Monocypher

    An easy to use, easy to deploy crypto library

  • That's cheating. I generally keep myself to at most one side effect per line. See my code.

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