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Asked: 2026-06-10T11:05:46+00:00

I have been trying to learn assembly language for the past few months, and

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I have been trying to learn assembly language for the past few months, and it seems to me that anything that I try is just impossible to do.

I have found the Intel x86 Instruction Set Reference (all 4000 pages of it), along with three or four other tutorials. I have read over these, used the example code and tried to make sense of it. But I still can’t do too much stuff with assembly. Hence my making an account here on Stack Overflow. But I feel as though I’m bugging the forum with my overly simple and bad questions.

My question is, is there any point in someone pursuing assembly language nowadays? It’s fun enough, but it’s so hard to make even a simple window (CreateWindowEx function takes 12 forsaken arguments!) that it seems pointless.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The vast majority of coders will never need to program in assembler, just like the vast majority may never need regular expressions, or need to learn the inner intricacies of various data structures.

    That doesn’t make them any less valuable in your toolkit.

    I personally wouldn’t be writing full-blown windowing applications in assembler, any more than I’d write an accounting package in it, or an operating system in COBOL, or pretty much anything in Pascal 🙂

    Choose the correct tool for the job (in all environments) and your life will be much easier.

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