Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work fa… ...

Assembly language is a text representation of the machine code your CPU executes I’m no stranger to assembly languages, but I’m not sure I know a modern and defensible answer to this question.

Some operations in FFmpeg are now as much as 100x faster due to the crafting of handwritten assembly code.