Had to reformat and reinstall everything.

[FlatAssembler]

Serious question: have you ever had to deliver a product which actually works? You know, like I had to when my computer architecture professor asked me to make an assembler and emulator for PicoBlaze that could be run in a modern browser?

I don't understand the joke.

[LinuxGal]

I don't understand the joke.

That right there is even funnier.

[GrandizerII]

Computer techs would've probably done the same thing you did anyway, Brian. Back up and reinstall is generally the first step computer techs do when it comes to any issues with software that cannot be solved with the help of google or would take more than 30 minutes of their time to resolve. Cynically speaking from experience.

[zebo-the-fat]

The 3 R's -- Reboot, Reformat, Re install

[FlatAssembler]

I don't understand the joke.

That right there is even funnier.

Do you mean to say that JavaScript programmers (front-end developers) are not real programmers? In my opinion, good front-end is more important than a good back-end. Would you rather submit a form on a slow website but which has a good user interface, or a fast "website" which requires you to submit JSON using CURL?

[LinuxGal]

That right there is even funnier.

Do you mean to say that JavaScript programmers (front-end developers) are not real programmers? In my opinion, good front-end is more important than a good back-end. Would you rather submit a form on a slow website but which has a good user interface, or a fast "website" which requires you to submit JSON using CURL?

Strong-typed inherently safe compiled language:  "False"

[Ravenshire]

I fear for the future of technical fields if @FlatAssembler is the best we can look forward to.

[arewethereyet]

I fear for the future of technical fields if @FlatAssembler  is the best we can look forward to.

Have no fear.  He's in Croatia and we aren't sure that is a place that even exists.

[FlatAssembler]

Do you mean to say that JavaScript programmers (front-end developers) are not real programmers? In my opinion, good front-end is more important than a good back-end. Would you rather submit a form on a slow website but which has a good user interface, or a fast "website" which requires you to submit JSON using CURL?

Strong-typed inherently safe compiled language:  "False"

Well, yes, JavaScript is full of quirks one needs to learn in order to use it effectively. I am not saying JavaScript is a good programming language. That's why there is WebAssembly, so that you can run programming languages better than JavaScript in the front-end. And I made a compiler for my programming language targetting WebAssembly. However, I did not use it for my PicoBlaze assembler and emulator because of two reasons:

1. It was important for me that my PicoBlaze assembler and emulator works in Firefox 52.9.0 ESR, in which WebAssembly is disabled. Namely, many computers at my university are running Windows XP and are using Firefox 52.9.0 ESR as the browser.
   
2. I suspected that, if I use WebAssembly, I will run into problems with communication between WebAssembly and JavaScript. So I will just be replacing problems with JavaScript with a new set of problems.
   

Furthermore, I probably wouldn't have got contributors (like Agustin Izaguirre) had I written a significant part of it in my programming language, which is far less well-known than JavaScript.

[FlatAssembler]

So, @bennyboy , you told me that you think that I should implement my algorithm for converting arithmetic expressions into x86 assembly in back-end, right? Well, I still think that's not a good idea. You know why? Because I got banned from 000webhost for "hate speech". And I had to move my website somewhere else, so I chose GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages supports no PHP. Had I written the core of it in the back-end (so, in PHP), that arithmetic expression compiler wouldn't work now. But because the core of it is written in JavaScript, the core of it still works. Only the parts that were written in PHP (for making FlatAssembler project files from the assembly code my web-app produces) don't work now.