Hey everyone, low-level programmers and fellow weirdos.

About two months ago, I was tinkering with a real-mode operating system that also had 64-bit support. Assembly was a daily grind: crypto protocols, syscalls, manual memory management. And I got tired of it. Tired of endlessly typing nasm ..., ld ..., babysitting flags, and cleaning up object file garbage.

So I decided to write my own builder. First in Node.js (just for fast prototyping), and now I'm in the middle of a full rewrite in Go. And no, it's not just because Go is trendy – it's because when you write a system tool, it should be fast, native, and not drag around a 100 MB runtime.

What it actually does

You write:

node index.js main.asm

And you get an executable. That's it.…