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[–] notabot@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assembly language is not something you would ever really program a game in.

Back then you wrote whatever you needed to be performant and/or that involved close access to the hardware in assembler. A game would definitely count. It's kind of nice to do, in many ways it's simpler than high level programming, you've just got a lot more to keep track of.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

This isn't really true on modern systems anymore. Lower level languages like C and Rust are more or less just as performant as handmade assembly.