They have their uses. For instance the other day I needed to read some assembly and decompiled C, you know how fun that can be. LLM proved quite good at translating it to english. And really speed up the process.
Writing it back wasn’t that good though, just good enough to point in a direction but I still ended up writing the patcher mostly by myself.
Assembly is very simple (at least RISC-V assembly is which I mostly work with) but also very tedious to read. It doesn’t help that the people who choose the instruction mnemonics have extremely poor taste - e.g. lb, lh, lw, ld instead of load8, load16, load32, load64. Or j instead of jump. Who needs to save characters that much?
The over-abbreviation is some kind of weird flaw that hardware guys all have. I wondered if it comes from labelling pins on PCB silkscreens (MISO, CLK etc)… Or maybe they just have bad taste.
They have their uses. For instance the other day I needed to read some assembly and decompiled C, you know how fun that can be. LLM proved quite good at translating it to english. And really speed up the process.
Writing it back wasn’t that good though, just good enough to point in a direction but I still ended up writing the patcher mostly by myself.
As one casually does lol Jokes aside, that’s pretty cool. I wish I had the technical know-how and, most importantly, the patience for it.
Assembly is very simple (at least RISC-V assembly is which I mostly work with) but also very tedious to read. It doesn’t help that the people who choose the instruction mnemonics have extremely poor taste - e.g.
lb,lh,lw,ldinstead ofload8,load16,load32,load64. Orjinstead ofjump. Who needs to save characters that much?The over-abbreviation is some kind of weird flaw that hardware guys all have. I wondered if it comes from labelling pins on PCB silkscreens (MISO, CLK etc)… Or maybe they just have bad taste.
I once worked on a chip that had nested acronyms.
Do you realize how old assembly language is?
It predates hard disks by ten years and coincided with the invention of the transistor.