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1K JavaScript Madness

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fits-on-a-postcard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "JS1k has a simple goal: to get programmers producing demos written in JavaScript that are 1k in size or less. That's just 1024 bytes to play with. There's even additional bonus points on offer if a demo's code can fit inside a single tweet. Now that the contest is finished and there is a top-ten, I'm wondering what they can do if given some extra bytes." I like the Tetris clone. The pulsing wires demo is neat too but kinda stuttery on my machine.

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  1. Asteroids by Hatta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm wondering what they can do if given some extra bytes."

    If they use bankswitching, maybe they can pull off Asteroids

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  2. Genetic approach by Iamthecheese · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would it be feasible to take a current simple game like Pacman, write a driver to check it for proper functionality on an x86 CPU, spawn thousands of them in minor variations, and use a genetic algorithm to keep the smallest?

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  3. Reminds me of thek5.org by MayorOfTuesday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.the5k.org/ Does anyone remember this site? It was a contest back in 2000-2002 to create the coolest website with only 5KB. Looks like it had a spiritual successor too: http://10k.aneventapart.com/

  4. Nostalgic Terminology by psbrogna · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting idea. Thirty years ago many people were introduced to programming by printed (ink on mashed up trees) anthologies of programs that were generally around a page long (8.5 x 11). Don't know how pervasive the term was, but in my personal circles these programs were called "K-Byters" because they were ~1 K long (or less).

  5. Re:nice by Kristopeit,+Mike+Da. · · Score: 2, Interesting
    generally if you want that level of granularity, you would never use jQuery, and instead build something custom.

    for my work i built a JSON-RPC development environment which automated the client and server creation like you're asking for... it's not that complicated.

    jQuery is for prototyping... if you're depending on it for production systems, you're lazy.

  6. Readability... by deepu_s · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It'd be truly impressive if it were *human-readable* source code that fit under 1k.

  7. Chess by Dthief · · Score: 3, Interesting

    impressed that they fit in a reasonable A.I. into the thing!

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  8. What about Perl? by slapout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It just hit me--think of all the stuff you could do in a Perl program that would fit into one tweet?

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  9. Making of the WOLF1K entry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Here's the making of of WOLF1K and the rainbow characters the Wolfenstein 3D-ish game sans violence in 1k that game #4