I have never owned a computer before like 2002.

In 2025 I started programming 6502 assembly just for fun as intellectual exercise (i did TINY bit of x86 asm in the past) and MY GOD: this is so easy and so valuable to learn!

Programming 6502 seems simpler than learning lets say JS framework or to learn just about anything modern.

Its super fun, super easy and very rewarding.

I ended up designing my own ultra RISC, stack based and uniform 32-bit fixed-length data size (all instructions and data have exactly the same size) with mimo and other cool features. 6502 on steroids

I felt competent first time for long time as jobless programmer doing that :)