Directprogramming
Directprogramming is a term used in some programming communities to describe a software development approach that emphasizes direct interaction with hardware and system resources, avoiding or minimizing abstraction layers provided by higher-level languages and frameworks. Proponents argue that directprogramming makes software behavior more predictable and easier to optimize for performance-critical tasks, by keeping control flow, memory management, and resource access explicit.
Key characteristics include explicit memory management, use of low-level constructs such as pointers and direct memory
Challenges of directprogramming include increased code complexity, higher risk of memory safety or concurrency errors, portability
Directprogramming sits alongside, and sometimes overlaps with, other paradigms such as systems programming and low-level programming.