I'll happily renounce "programmer" in favor of "applied mathematician" or something, whatever it takes to avoid C https://twitter.com/alindeman/status/855557506881396736 …
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The often totally unrecognizable x86 instructions GCC produces from even simple C code make the "close to the metal" thing seem a bit tired.
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"the metal" is whatever layer of abstraction you choose not to look under
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C was a pretty good model of 1970s hardware. Now...no way.
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everything important (OS, shaders etc.) is still basically C
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True if metal = a 70s minicomputer.
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C is lightyears from the metal of modern hardware. For instance SIMD not part of C except as proprietary extension or compiler optimization
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If you turn off the optimizer, sure.
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C is not close to metal anymore, that's an illusion, you program for an Abstract Machine, that's what's written in The Spec
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"anymore" not, it never in fact was close to metal
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The metal has a much less ambiguous specification.
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