Building a new Win 3.1 app in 2019 Part 1: Slack client
In October 2019, my company SP Digital held an internal hackathon. My colleague Subhransu and I worked on a whacky idea of writing a brand-new Windows 3.1 app which was an OS released almost 30 years ago. The idea we chose was a Slack client. After all, Slack clients exist for most platforms but I'm
Hasnain says:
Uh.... this is some hardcore work. Writing a slack client here.
Bonus points for a resource usage comparison that shows - even with the overhead of running a full VM - that this is more efficient than the official Slack client.
“The stack size of a 16-bit program is typically 4-6 KiB with a similar size for the heap. This is smaller than the size of the HTTP reply + JSON returned by Slack!”
Posted on 2019-12-22T00:26:05+0000