The difference is: One you do for fun and one you’re told to do for money.
You can use a JavaScript to assembly converter so you get the same pain on your personal projects.
Amazing how you can work 8 hours without it ever stopping being 1 am. Human beings really are amazing when they are motivated
What are you doing in assembly?
Assembling.
Doing vector operations because the MCU vendor didn’t provide APIs for it.
(did not actually do that but was preparing to before we came to our senses and ditched that MCU)
Yep, programming is fun but working as a programmer not so much. For me writing software is a creative activity. It’s fun to come up with problems and find solutions for them. In my personal projects I decide what problem I want to solve, choose the technology I think will be fun to solve it in and then come up with a solution I like.
At work you are usually handed a problem you don’t care about (we’re decommissioning X, you don’t have to know why, just change everything to use Y), the solution is described in detail by someone else and you just have to turn it into some code using 5-10 years old stack.
Fortunately at my current job I mostly do projects without much technical oversight (proof-of-concept type project) so I can choose how I want to do then. I dislike the company culture but I know that moving somewhere else would mean going back to boring coding agian.
Where I work there is a hardware test, where the voltage needs to be changed on the power supply like 8 times. Currently it’s done by hand.
I gave that to a student with the description that I want that automated, let production show you how the test is done. If you have other ideas how to improve it, just do it.
This was 8 working days ago for the student. She still hasn’t started, because she wants an exact description what needs to be done. If you want me to write down how exactly everything needs to be done, I might just write it myself in python and be done with it.
At least with your assembly code it’ll go brrrrrrrt because of how fast it’ll be.
It will go brrrrrrrt¤gdføTJwrgt65&<)5½$¥[[¥½{2ahgfh Segmentation fault (core dumped)
If you know that you do. What you probably do not. A proper C/C++ compiler (gcc) will almost always produce better/more optimized ASM than a human ever could.
Why is this literally the opposite for me?
I have a class where I write in Assembly but instead I’m working on my personal HTML/CSS/JS project.
The result is still the same, isn’t it? (in language you like vs in language you’re forced to use)
It also really depends on what is being made. My Assembly programs are specific homework assignments. My JS project is designed entirely by my will.
I think the main difference is just personal project vs work project
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Wonder if that’s the “alienation of labor” thing Marx was talking about
