I first got interested in programming in the early 90's. By the mid 90's I was writing fairly complex software using C and Pascal on an old mac that I bought with weekend job money.
I remember compiling programs with full graphical interfaces and 2d sprite games etc into binaries of only a few hundred kilobytes.
A few months ago I helped an acquaintance write a battleships game for windows console in C++ using visual studio. Compiled binary was 2.something megabytes!! For a fucking text based console game!
Could have made the exact same thing 30 years ago in dos and it would have been single digit kilobytes compiled. What the fuck is in there??
I first got interested in programming in the early 90's. By the mid 90's I was writing fairly complex software using C and Pascal on an old mac that I bought with weekend job money.
I remember compiling programs with full graphical interfaces and 2d sprite games etc into binaries of only a few hundred kilobytes.
A few months ago I helped an acquaintance write a battleships game for windows console in C++ using visual studio. Compiled binary was 2.something megabytes!! For a fucking text based console game!
Could have made the exact same thing 30 years ago in dos and it would have been single digit kilobytes compiled. What the fuck is in there??