“I decided to polish my code, write extensive documentation for it and then released Impact. Not for free, but for a rather steep $99.”
Impact sold more than 3,000 licenses at $99 after Apple shut Flash out of iOS and Canvas2D became the way to ship web games. Its author has now rewritten it in C as high_impact, compiling to Windows, Mac, Linux and WASM. The browser is just one more compile target. The JavaScript engine needed C to outlive JavaScript’s moment.