Really curious where you came across this - I (virtually) know Jakob from the Julia community (he and I are the primary admins of BioJulia), but I’m not aware of his reach elsewhere.

It’s a really great post!

Good summary, thanks.
I learned to code when RAM was 32K and storage was a cassette, we had motivation to be efficient.
Now making a climate model run interactively in a web browser, similar principles still apply.