As an embedded programmer with a strong background in C/C++, I'm always a bit disappointed that simple bit operations are considered magical by programmers today.<p>The game looks really cool and sleek, but I can't understand how the observation that a two state tile can actually be stored as single bit is blog post worthy.<p>As computers are growing stronger and faster than ever before, ram and storage are multiplying by size everyday, it seems that the bit fiddling skills of the past are becoming obsolete.<p>Languages like Java and JS which make bit-wise operations and manipulations difficult aren't making the situation any better.