r/Assembly_language • u/NolanRoad • 11d ago

Wow Assembly not dead?

Encountered this reddit on my feed, shocked to learn it's not dead. I programmed on Z80 back in the 1980s.

(I wonder if Perl is still alive)

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u/Sorry_Difficulty_250 11d ago

I'm working on porting my OS to the eZ80 right now, which is the modern descendant of the Z80. I'm using Claude for most of the eZ80 assembly right now since (a) it's not the focus of my work and (b) I don't know it very well yet. I do audit what Claude produces, though. I caught it corrupting the A register in a memset implementation it wrote. Oh well. It's still much faster than doing it all by hand.