NASM - The Netwide Assembler
NASM Forum => Other Discussion => Topic started by: Dr1v3n on December 07, 2020, 06:03:04 PM
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The premise of my question is: Are there any full-time professional assembly programmers out there in year 2020? I virtually never see job listings like this, and know of no one else who routinely programs assembly in my real life, let alone full-time at a professional job.
What I tend to see is folks using it for hobby side-projects, occasionally for certain routines at work (e.g. performance-critical stuff), and reverse engineering people learning it mostly to read it.
If any such people are here or who have something to comment about what I said, please do speak up, I'd love to hear stories of how you use assembly language.
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You are right, head hunters nowadays seek for programmers fluent in Python, C#, Java, but never in Assembler. Don't give up, a good company won't restrict developers to the one particular platform (though it might be easier for them to maintenance projects then).
In my job I am expected to solve problems, not to write a solution in some concrete company-preferred language.
When you master an assembler, you still could make a fortune writing drivers for hardware, analysing foreign code in antivirus company, hunting for bugs created in higher programming languages by your colleagues.
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Are there any full-time professional assembly programmers out there in year 2020?
I would be very surprised. Maybe maintaining some legacy system.
What I tend to see is folks using it for hobby side-projects, occasionally for certain routines at work (e.g. performance-critical stuff), and reverse engineering people learning it mostly to read it.
RE/pentesting/etc. is probably the biggest one, but note they do still write asm.
Other jobs where you work with asm are compilers and operating systems.