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Re your counterpoint, learning to write small extremely toy programs in assembly isn’t hard. But using it to write bug-free programs with non-trivial functional

Re your counterpoint, learning to write small extremely toy programs in assembly isn’t hard. But using it to write bug-free programs with non-trivial functionality is much more difficult.

bigfishrunning 1y ago
Generally, people aren't writing programs with non-trivial functionality in assembly; they're writing very small, hyper optimized functions that get called by some higher level language.
- jimt1234 1y ago
  Exactly ^^^ I taught myself assembly on my Commodore 64. However, I only used it for certain tasks that were suboptimal with Commodore's BASIC and 64K of RAM.
  - mwkaufma 1y ago
    Or in my case, 68K assembly for genesis/megadrive homebrew -- mostly to do VDP display interrupt tricks.
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qalmakka 1y ago
Yeah it's all shit and giggles until you need to allocate memory and handle it. Or when you need to use vector instructions or some CPU-specific stuff. Then you start understanding why people call it nightmarish
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