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Many of the assembly writers have exposure across platforms, but often with modern assemblers whose syntax tracks Intel syntax more closely. I don't know why 6
by pclmulqdq 2y ago
Many of the assembly writers have exposure across platforms, but often with modern assemblers whose syntax tracks Intel syntax more closely.
I don't know why 68000 is so popular here (maybe people on HN learned it in school?), but you're far more likely to be writing ARM assembly or these days RISC-V assembly than writing for an antiquated core like the 68000.
Believe it or not, outside the x86 world, Intel-style syntax has basically won.
- vidarh 2y agoBecause assembler used to be common, and isn't anymore, and because M68k assembler was nice to write, and because the Amiga and Atari were big once. I abandoned assembler when I switched to Linux and got my first PC because x86 assembler was so awful I couldn't bear working with it. AT&T syntax made it slightly less atrocious through familiarity, but only slightly.