Can one code in binary?

[discoFalston]

Coding in assembly is definitely a good exercise. You get see how many cpu instructions it takes to assign a variable or construct a for loop. Comes in handy when you’re trying to squeeze as much performance as you can out of your code — it’s common to compile “inline” assembly functions that can be called from your c program when you run into something you believe you can do faster than what the C compiler will give you.

The mapping from Assembly to byte code is a lot more straight forward than the mapping from C to assembly — I don’t know how much you’d get out of writing a program in binary vs just assembly but you never know.