These days people struggle to handle a few thousand (ed. concurrent?) users of a text based website on a quad core system with gigabytes of ram.
Which is subject to completely different requirements and restrictions. I think just flatly comparing that to 'writing demoscene code' constitutes a 'disregard of substance'.
BTW, reminiscing about writing demoscene code or actually returning to it may very well be the latest fad.
Well, you're a victim of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias if I've ever seen one. People here are into Lisp. ;)
These days people struggle to handle a few thousand (ed. concurrent?) users of a text based website on a quad core system with gigabytes of ram.
Which is subject to completely different requirements and restrictions. I think just flatly comparing that to 'writing demoscene code' constitutes a 'disregard of substance'.
BTW, reminiscing about writing demoscene code or actually returning to it may very well be the latest fad.