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As fun as this may sound, beside nostalgia, are there any real reasons to learn 6502 assembly today? If you want to learn low level programming there are bette
by bostand 10y ago
As fun as this may sound, beside nostalgia, are there any real reasons to learn 6502 assembly today?
If you want to learn low level programming there are better and more recent systems out there (avr, arm)
- madiathomas 10y agoFrom the article: "Then why 6502? Why not a useful assembly language, like x86? Well, I don’t think learning x86 is useful. I don’t think you’ll ever have to write assembly language in your day job - this is purely an academic exercise, something to expand your mind and your thinking. 6502 was originally written in a different age, a time when the majority of developers were writing assembly directly, rather than in these new-fangled high-level programming languages. So, it was designed to be written by humans. More modern assembly languages are meant to written by compilers, so let’s leave it to them. Plus, 6502 is fun. Nobody ever called x86 fun". ARM and AVR may be better and more recent options but they probably won't be good for introduction purposes.
- bostand 10y agoActually, I think they are a better introduction to assembly as they are simpler and easier to understand