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To be fair nobody codes in ASM and things are fine for decades.
by romanovcode 1mo ago
To be fair nobody codes in ASM and things are fine for decades.
- rhdunn 1mo agoASM is still used in some areas, such as: 1. function trampolines, such as in libraries like ATL (Microsoft's COM template library); 2. hand-optimized encoders/decoders for things like ffmpeg; 3. niche applications such as Ben Eater's 6502 breadboard computer (using a modified WozMon and Microsoft BASIC); 4. reading ASM output from C/C++ code in things like the GodBolt site for performance comparisons/analysis; 5. reverse engineering old DOS games; 6. people working on things like compilers (generating optimized assembly), JIT engines, or other code generation -- though this will typically be machine code, possibly with assembly instruction comments; and other performance critical places where assembly can speed up that part of the code.
- romanovcode 1mo agoAbsolutely, by 1% of developers. So analogy would be that those 1% would understand the code fully in the coming years.
- adamddev1 1mo agoASM to a higher level language is a jump to a clearly defined higher level language through a deterministic compile step. The jump away to LLMs is something completely different.