asmttpd

Perhaps I am searching too closely for parallels here, but what would be the analogue of this from a software engineering perspective? Maybe writing something like an HTTP server in assembly, or something? I remember this (https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd) popping up on HN some time ago. Writing your own kernel, or compiler? Building your own 8-bit microcomputer, and then running something on it? (A project like that was part of a course I took at college, and it did a decent job at demystifying many common concepts about computing).

Pretty neat! It's awesome how assembly these days is reasonably high level: https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd/blob/master/http.asm It dawns on me why we couldn't have shortcuts for several patterns that show up everywhere: - mov, mov, mov then call/syscall could just be written as call(arg, arg, arg) since it's not that difficult to figure out which argument needs to go to which register if there was a defined order of arguments. - push push push push <function body> pop pop pop pop <ret> could just be a define really. I realize that there are cases where you wouldn't necessarily do that, but that seems to be the minority. The compiler could just figure out what registers you use in the routine and push / pop those. If you want to keep a register, there could be added syntax for that. It seems in both of these cases the language optimizes