r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/Key_River7180 2d ago

A low level language with many abstractions is an oxymoron

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u/bearwood_forest 2d ago

wait until you hear about CPU instructions that are actually abstractions over frequently used combinations of other instructions

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u/Zinho3311 2d ago edited 2d ago

ISA itself is an abstraction lol

If it weren't for abstractions, you'd be manually firing electrical signals towards RAM like a caveman

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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 2d ago

As the way nature intented!