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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Don’t Want to be that Guy but you can actually use libraries in Assembly and probably want to, as otherwise you have no good way of interacting with the os.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

You can actually pluralize library and probably want to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

In fact Chris Sawyer did use C for the purposes of linking the OS libraries necessary for windowing, rendering, sound etc.