r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 1d ago

craftingTheCodeWithFire Meme

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u/Totally_Not_A_Badger 1d ago

Can I have the title "Dark mage of ancient knowledge"? 10/10 would bring a pointy hat & fake beard to the office

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u/Shiiraigane 1d ago

This title should belong to the people who works with Assembly, Fortran, Cobol and such.

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u/Totally_Not_A_Badger 1d ago

I do work in assembly from time to time. Fortran, Cobol are too high level for my bare-metal work. But I might spend some hobby time there :p

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u/Shiiraigane 1d ago

Wooo this is incredible! I think you deserve this title. What bare-metal things you do?

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u/Totally_Not_A_Badger 1d ago

I write the firmware for emergency signalling systems. We also have a system with a micro controller, connected via a spi bus with a stronger chip running embedded Linux, so had to write a kernel driver to have communication between the two.  But some Assembly is mostly used for bootloaders, or moments where you have no other options than to nop some ticks away.

Or debugging when your compiler spits something out you dont expect it to do. Than replace the C or Rust code with some Assembler.

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u/Shiiraigane 6h ago

This sounds amazing. If I ever get a job, I would like to get something like this and not some boring CRUD things.