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Title of the post is wrong. Shenzhen (深圳) is a city in China spelt Shenzhen not Shenzen. (Edit: Looks like someone just fixed it.) An interesting game concept. Honestly though, even there virtually nobody codes ASM anymore... as a hardware startup founder in China I just bought the game anyway. :)

(Edit: This game is really quite good. I never could be bothered with assembly, but now I am entertained. I don't think it's super accessible to people who haven't at least dabbled in assembly before though, but it's certainly a good way to learn.)

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Fwiw Shenzhen is the Silicon Valley of China, Tencent and Huwei etc

I thought Shenzhen was more hardware than software no?

The biggest internet company in China, Tencent, is in Shenzhen.

Also one of the most modern banks, China Merchant's Bank (招商银行 / CMBC) is headquartered there.

I need to open a bank account in China next month - out of curiosity, in what way are they one of the most modern? :)

Not one of the old guard from the socialist era, a generally good reputation / better service, and first to have relatively OK internet banking. (ie. not 'manually reconfigure your windows certificates' like some others used to be)

Silicon Valley started out being about hardware with HP, Intel, etc.

DJI is in Shenzhen as well.

Even the URL of the OP spells it with an h. Don't downvote this poor user!

Update: maybe you got auto-whacked for using non-latin characters?

What language(s) do you use for writing code on your hardware?

Depends on the microcontroller. Right now we only use ARM and cheap Arduino clones (Atmel) for sensor/effector integration, so anything Linux supports on ARM (python/lua/ruby/shell/whatever) and the Arduino stuff on Atmel. The latter are so cheap for our purposes (one finished product is $1000s, 10s of these are less than 1% of cost) that it's not worth cutting back a few cents per unit for additional hassle. We can always go lower level for efficiency, but time and maintainability are more important.

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