Horses for courses. It's silly to as ask a web dev these questions and expect these XOR approaches. Low-level developers ("bare metal" as the kids say), on th

Horses for courses. It's silly to as ask a web dev these questions and expect these XOR approaches. Low-level developers ("bare metal" as the kids say), on the other hand? They should have a deep enough understanding of binary representation and bitwise operations to approach these problems with logic gates.