18 engineers on Hacker News describe using Assembly first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have hand-written asm for use in production code, and I would do it again.”
endorse · production · cout · 2021-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“am fond of several of them (bliss 36, lisp, various assembler)”
endorse · personal · wglb · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one of the niceties IMO of doing assembly language programming is that it is far less error tolerant in the ways you describe”
endorse · production · 2ton_jeff · 2015-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After having to implement 16-bit long division in assembly on a processor that only had a single 8-bit accumulator I vowed to never again use a CPU”
regret · production · HeyLaughingBoy · 2015-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Programming, done in assembly language, was a mess. It was hard, very hard, we had to build all of our own tools”
regret · production · todd8 · 2014-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated from Asm to C. And C to C++, then to Java. And then Java to Python.”
neutral · production · polski-g · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started my career as a programmer in 1972, writing real-time systems in assembly language”
neutral · production · jsyjr · 2025-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started my programming in assembly in the 80s”
neutral · personal · scarface_74 · 2024-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had to write an API to simulate nonpreemptive tasking like the old assembly system.”
neutral · production · koz1000 · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“First utility in assembly. First device driver (for a Centronics printer).”
neutral · personal · varjag · 2023-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nope. Asm, then later Pascal quickly followed by C.”
neutral · personal · cagey · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had the legacy code 100% in asm and we moved to C.”
neutral · production · alfor · 2022-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“To someone who has been using Asm and C for decades”
neutral · production · 20 yr · userbinator · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was taught assembly at the job by an old assembly guru.”
neutral · production · thechao · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since C was my second language after Assembly (6502 and then x86_32)”
neutral · personal · eggy · 2016-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure)”
neutral · personal · rivo · 2014-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Two years later I was coding demos in Assembler.”
neutral · personal · pan69 · 2013-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my "normal" job, I get a very small white list of programming languages.”
neutral · production · stevenN · 2010-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?