For me this gives me back this awesome mix of:

  • constrainted environment
  • real control over the resources
  • abstraction and optimizing at the right spots

so basically what my 6yo self was confronted with, but was able to understand, in the 80s when I got my hands on the sinclair z80 of my mom …

Something the juniors today, writing js code for vms in virtualized environments, do not expirence “naturaly” - but I think they should