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Not sure if I get the joke, is FFmpeg considered slow? That's the only angle I can think of for the joke to work... am I missing something?
DOGE said they're going to rewrite the existing SSA code, which is done in COBOL, to modernize it, and everyone is pointing out how fraught with peril that is. This is saying they're going to do it in assembly, which is what we do when we need highly efficient code, like for a resource-constrained real-time control system, but is also much more challenging to program. The chance of rewriting a giant COBOL application in Assembly, and not making a whole mess of errors, is really small. And it would be very hard to maintain.
Just get the guy that made rollercoaster Tycoon in Assembly, he'll knock it over in a week.
I see no way this could go wrong
I believe you’re overthinking it. The only relation to the project is likely that they have assembly language developers on the team to help implement accelerated format conversions.
It's a genuine xeet(?).
Man let's just stick to tweet. This whole x thing is too silly even for April fools.
*xit.
I should add that the FFmpeg team is quite proud of the fact that they write in C and Assembly for peak performance. They mention it a lot, and so they did here.