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		Croftengea on June 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratc... TL;DR: the article explains how to open a new window in X11 and print "Hello, world" in assembly. The asm code to achieve this is 618 lines long.

ripe on June 1, 2023 [–]

Thank you for summarizing! This adds a lot of color to the headline. I was imagining a framebuffer-based GUI.

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