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High-level is the goal | Ben Visness

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Why should anyone care about low-level programming?

High-level is the goal Why should anyone care about low-level programming? If you have heard of the Handmade community, you likely think we are about “low-level programming” in some way. After all, we are a community inspired by Handmade Hero , a series where you learn to make a game and engine from scratch. We in the Handmade community often bemoan the state of the software industry. Modern software is slow and bloated beyond belief—our computers are literally ten times more powerful than a decade ago, yet they run worse than they used to, purely because the software is so bad. The actual use

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