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My personal take on this: it is practical, should be prefered, and will be definitive if risc-v is a success. Because to be independent from those pieces of so
by sylware 4y ago
My personal take on this: it is practical, should be prefered, and will be definitive if risc-v is a success.
Because to be independent from those pieces of software which are compilers and from languages with absurd and grotesque syntax complexity (c++ and similar) is so much a win in the long run: after decades of coding I realized that to endure not the compiler (open source or not) vendor lock-in by size and complexity or the never ending planned obsolescence of computer language syntaxes (from ISO or compiler specific extensions), I am ready to code assembly and that _EVEN_ without comments (but don't worry, I write them, because they are actually sort of part of the "code").
And for always-trash-rdy/quick-and-dirty pieces of software, which should not be ignored and minored (for instance yt-dlp), assembly written of very high level language interpreters should handle them: python/lua/ruby/javascript/haskell/(and the bazillions of others). I would start with a basic POSIX command shell though.