but if doing it through the Java API means you can ship it in an hour instead of 2 days, still might be worth it. In the end it's really dependent on what tool

but if doing it through the Java API means you can ship it in an hour instead of 2 days, still might be worth it. In the end it's really dependent on what tools you're used to. And extremely dependent on the goal. For most software, the objective is to accomplish the task, and performance doesn't matter (until it starts to matter of course). I think judging people on the level of abstraction of their tools could end up being counterproductive and alienating. Maybe you never want to write in Java, but dismissing those people out of hand could mean that you might not have an opportunity to show them why you enjoy writing your assembly programs.