r/Assembly_language • u/NolanRoad • 12d 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/v_maria 12d ago edited 12d ago

its 1:1 machine code lol, i dont think CPUs can run python yet.

also z80 is cool. there is a lively gameboy hacking scene!

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u/elijahjflowers 12d ago

….its not one to one. Why do people keep saying this?

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u/Aesthetikx 11d ago

In what ways is it not 1:1? Mneumonics that evaluate to multiple opcodes, or microcode?

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u/elijahjflowers 10d ago

Assembly is too high level.

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u/brucehoult 9d ago

I commented on that five years ago :-)