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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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I took an assembly language course once. You know those merge games where you eventually get to double or quadruple your producer's output? Coding in assembly feels like being stuck on 1x, where you have to generate all the basic stuff first, and then build on it, then build on it some more. It takes forever.
I liked understanding the why behind it. But I appreciate other languages that are more accessible.
Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.
The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance.. You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.