The RAM shortage might be the best thing to happen in software development in years
For years, the answer was simple: throw more RAM at it. Software happily expanded to fill whatever space it was given.Now memory limits are tightening again and that’s forcing a long-overdue rethink.
Developers once built incredible things with almost nothing, and history proves it. Super Mario 64 shipped on 8MB and RollerCoaster Tycoon was written in assembly.
Constraints didn’t slow innovation, they shaped it. And maybe today’s RAM shortage is about to do the same 
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