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I thought he was going to make an argument for hand-coded assembly language.

• smcl 12y ago
  To me the phrase "bare metal" would mean writing software (in C, Asm or whatever) that does not use any sort of Operating System or VM.
  • rdc12 12y ago
    I was expecting something along those lines, the sort of post that makes my mind hurt in a good way
  • gaius 12y ago
    In the future, "bare metal" will mean writing Javascript without a framework.
    • moron4hire 12y ago
      Well then, according to the reaction I've had to my projects at various startup meetups, the future is now!
    • jacquesm 12y ago
      That's microcode.
  • masklinn 12y ago
    "bare metal" is often used to mean "OS-less", running a binary or language VM directly (or on Xen to get very-basic HAL (e.g. http://erlangonxen.org) http://erlangonxen.org)) I still have no idea how TFA is using it.