Comment Re:Assembler only - One Coder - No backdoors. (Score 2) 240
How the fuck do you manage to find a job writing low level code? I thought that shit died out in the 80s!
I didn't.
And no, that shit is far from dead. You'll find lots of assembly in specialized proprietary hardware where it's easier to just implement your own code instead of using an entire suite of libraries and ready made IDE packages.
What I like about coding assembly, is that it's relatively straight forward, ok...the math really isn't as we don't have the luxury of floating points in every variable, various math function - and we need to keep track of our code jumps as the MCUs have certain limitations when it comes to branching here and there.
I usually use older MCUs too as I don't have to deal with numerous layers of special codes to access special features of the chip. I keep things on a simple I/O level - and add "shit" as I please. No need to have an AD/DA converter with every thing I come up with, so I just add the hardware layers I need and what whenever I need them. I've been thinking of moving to FPGAs...now THERE's something that would eat my time. Assembly is the simple shit. (But very gratifying and fun to do, even for beginners).