• Venator@lemmy.nz
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    10 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.

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      10 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.

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      10 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.