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Question: Do you master assembly language?Is it used in the reaper?
Asked by deel (221.215.214.x) on November 15 2025, 12:48pm
Reply on November 15 2025, 2:23pm:

not sure about what it would mean to master, but when you program enough, languages and assembly in different architectures become a little bit irrelevant, you get used to virtualizing the machine (be it virtual in the case of C, or literal in the case of assembly) in your head. REAPER is mostly C++ for portability, but there are parts that are in assembly, particularly JSFX which generates machine code on the fly to execute for each architecture. So there you're not so much programming in assembly, but programming something which generates assembly. For example, the

arm64 stubs for macOS

the glue code for that

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