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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i wouldn't want to program in pure assembly either but asm is definitely powerful

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I would argue that ASM isn't "powerful". It's direct. You can access advanced features of a CPUs architecture with the trade off limited portability. Sometimes it's necessary but power comes from being able to express complex control and data structures in a concise and readable amount of text.

The subjective topic of what "concise and readable" means is where the language wars come in.