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Re:Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js by rplnt on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:39AM (#7602541)
Am I missing a joke here?
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Re:Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js by adamnemecek on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:49AM (#7602577)
Why? It seems pretty useful e.g. for writing shellcode.
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Re:Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js by midas007 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:15PM (#7606010)
Yeap, it's very handy to see the binary live. If it had editable hex and disassembly (just spew asm into the context), that would rock^3.
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Re:Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js by henrikm85 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:16AM (#7602639)
Actually, this is pretty cool for teaching students!
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Re:Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js by pjmlp on Thursday April 17, 2014 @07:26AM (#7602936)
I rather have them use something like this,

http://badsector.github.io/dcpustud/

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Re:Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js by rplnt on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:07AM (#7602778)
I see. Haven't thought about that. Otherwise it seemed like a pointless (but interesting nevertheless) hobby project.
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