Comment by simonhochrein

So cool to see the nesdev community getting a shout out here!

I’ve been part of this group for years and it’s been a great learning experience of engineering for limited hardware and making the most of it. The nesdev community has been super friendly and welcoming and helped me get up to speed very quickly.

Currently a lot of NES homebrew is written in assembly due to hardware and compiler limitations. While you can write C oftentimes it’s simpler and faster to use assembly with some classic optimization techniques.

For anyone interested in low level coding or getting started with 6502 development, NES is a great platform to start with.

While not fully complete yet, there is a project that I work on with a couple of other folks to bring better editor support for 6502 assembly to a bunch of common code editors.

https://github.com/simonhochrein/ca65-lsp

Have fun building!