alt Hacker NewsAssembly is simple. You can learn it quickly. It’s writing a large program in it that’s hard. How roller coaster tycoon was written in it boggles my mind.
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skeeter2020 • yesterday at 3:45 PM
but even the smallest modern programs would be monsters in Assembly, so it's simplicity doesn't help much, and you're juggling a lot more than 3 bean bags.
aeon_ai • yesterday at 2:01 PM
The notion that the average developer would recover from the removal of modern high level language abstractions and frameworks, learn assembly, and go back to their regular coding velocity is patently absurd.
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But that’s the whole problem. Almost no one has experience programming in the large with assembly. It’s far more difficult than building the simple toys built even in good university programs. It would be a total shit show and probably upwards of 80% would quit or crash out.