just like the good old days!
but yeah, in 2023 this challenge that sometimes borders on survival-horror is actually, genuinely worth the tradeoff in a lot of cases, because the alternative is this strange fractal moving target of incompatibility, sabotage by API changes, and arbitrarily different hardware configurations. it's hard to think of a more damning condemnation of the state of our craft
knuth will write it in like 3 weeks, suddenly free of an assembly language that was obsolete before he started