Comment by antonvs
12 hours ago
Re your counterpoint, learning to write small extremely toy programs in assembly isn’t hard. But using it to write bug-free programs with non-trivial functionality is much more difficult.
12 hours ago
Re your counterpoint, learning to write small extremely toy programs in assembly isn’t hard. But using it to write bug-free programs with non-trivial functionality is much more difficult.
Generally, people aren't writing programs with non-trivial functionality in assembly; they're writing very small, hyper optimized functions that get called by some higher level language.
Exactly ^^^ I taught myself assembly on my Commodore 64. However, I only used it for certain tasks that were suboptimal with Commodore's BASIC and 64K of RAM.
Or in my case, 68K assembly for genesis/megadrive homebrew -- mostly to do VDP display interrupt tricks.
Yeah it's all shit and giggles until you need to allocate memory and handle it. Or when you need to use vector instructions or some CPU-specific stuff. Then you start understanding why people call it nightmarish