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I learned to program on a 6502 when I was younger - it's a little depressing that computers went and got so fast that there's no real justification for doing th
by commandlinefan 7y ago
I learned to program on a 6502 when I was younger - it's a little depressing that computers went and got so fast that there's no real justification for doing this sort of thing any more in almost any domain (except, I guess, if you manage to land a position developing embedded I2C drivers).
- jhayward 7y agoJoin the ultra-low-power crowd! There are lots of fun things to make while trying to squeeze it in a couple of KB and a few kHz.
- chrischen 7y agoYes but there are new primitive domains to master, like driving a motor with an arduino, or programming FPGAs.
- djmips 7y agoI beg to differ; shader / GPU programming has been a haven for justification of programming 'that sort of thing'. Particularly on home consoles where the hardware doesn't change year on year but the need to improve is still prevalent.
- fzort 7y agoYou still need to know a bit of assembly to take advantage of SIMD (even when using compiler intrinsics). See for instance https://github.com/lemire/simdjson https://github.com/lemire/simdjson