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Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving by zby on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:00PM (#24911830)
Hmm - I don't see much people tinkering with machine code, even compiler bugs are rare and programmers don't normally need to understand what their compilers do.
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Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving by Frost1x on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:48PM (#24914142)
If you're working with HPC applications, your choice of compilers and sometimes higher level specifications you may write in C, C++, or (gasp) Fortran often do demand you think about what your compilers are doing or choose compilers to think better for you.

If you're fine with lower performance (which is reasonable for a lot of application cases, so I almost entirely agree with you), you certainly don't have to deal with this.

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Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving by pabs3 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:33PM (#24914845)
These folks are working on bootstrapping a full Linux distribution solely from a small amount of machine code plus all the source code of the distribution:

https://bootstrappable.org/

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