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This is the kind of project that reminds you how far removed modern development is from the actual machine. We pile abstractions on abstractions until "Hello Wo
by wzbtoolbox 8mo ago
This is the kind of project that reminds you how far removed modern development is from the actual machine. We pile abstractions on abstractions until "Hello World" needs 200MB of node_modules, and then someone fits a C compiler in 512 bytes.
Not saying we should all write boot sector code, but reading through projects like this is genuinely humbling. Great educational resource too.
- lock1 8mo agoThis kind of comment reminds me of how broad "software development" is. On other HN posts, they're stating something like "software development is dead", "LLM as a compiler", "Do you read compiled assembly?", and so on. While some other posts like this contain huge mechanical sympathy and literally r/w the assembly directly.