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Re:Coding without Google by girvo on Thursday May 26, 2016 @08:21AM (#11777335)
> You had to code against the metal, so to speak

These days, you can actually code the metal itself (so to speak) with easily and cheaply available FPGAs! That to me is even more exciting, certainly a lot of fun, and at least I've been doing a lot of trying and failing with it.

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Re:Coding without Google by sklogic on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:50AM (#11784724)
You can do it as a hobby, yes. But if it is your job, you'll still have to navigate your way through impenetrable piles of convoluted needless layers.

Not to mention the awful closed-source toolchains.

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