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[–] bratorange 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Don’t Want to be that Guy but you can actually use libraries in Assembly and probably want to, as otherwise you have no good way of interacting with the os.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

You can actually pluralize library and probably want to.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

In fact Chris Sawyer did use C for the purposes of linking the OS libraries necessary for windowing, rendering, sound etc.