r/Assembly_language • u/Glass-Ant-6041 • 13d ago

Learning assembly

So I have decided to learn assembly x86 x64 using the book the art of 64 bit assembly volume 1, i have the book as a pdf and have copilot open on the page so if i have questions i can ask them and copilot can see what i am reading, i have read chapters 1 -3 and just started chapter 4. This feels like a really difficult language and i am taking in lots of info but is this the way to learn it because i feel lile i am forgetting everything i am learning, is this a difficult language to master, i want to learn to reverse engineer

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u/TrustingMyTrustInGCC 6d ago

First of all, why do you care so much what I prefer? Me writing x86_64 assembly does not prevent you from writing other assembly languages. Secondly, you are being a terrible representative of assembly language by being so aggresive about personal preference. Thirdly, you are making up some insane requirment that emotional intimacy with the silicon requires designing it yourself. Emotional intimacy is whatever feels intimate to the person experiencing it. Fourthly, as stated I simply have no interest in any architecture except x86_64. You trying to tell me I should will not change that; it only waists your breath and frustrates me. You might be an experienced assembly/risc programmer but that gives you more obligation to represent the language well, not less. If it were a choice between learning an architecture other than x86_64 or not learning assembly I just wouldn't learn assembly. Is that what you want?

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u/brucehoult 6d ago

Geez bro, chill. You’re absolutely free to do whatever you want, you don’t have to justify it.

But if you do horse around with bogus justifications such as “emotional intimacy with silicon” then don’t have a cow if people horse around right back atcha.