• @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    Ease of access to the underlying hardware in your programming language is only ever needed for embedded programming in the current year. Change my mind.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      There are actual use cases where direct memory access and pointer magic can be very efficient or almost necessary. We work a lot with large images and basically always the first steps are some pointer operations.

    • @marcos
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      811 months ago

      It’s required for drivers too.

    • davel [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Every operating system running on bare metal needs access to the hardware. And if not on bare metal, it needs access to the virtual hardware.