Improving giscus for Microcontroller & Embedded Projects

[CamilaDziubat]

Hi giscus team! 👋

I’m currently working with IAR Embedded Workbench and Assembly code (.asm) for microcontroller projects. I noticed that integrating code examples or discussions about embedded systems in GitHub Discussions can be challenging.

I would like to suggest or discuss:

Are there ways to improve giscus support for code snippets in Assembly or embedded languages?

Can we enhance syntax highlighting or formatting for .asm code inside Discussions?

Any tips for sharing microcontroller code effectively using giscus in public repositories?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and any best practices you recommend for developers working with embedded projects.

Thank you! 🙏

[laymonage]

The markdown is rendered by GitHub, so there isn't anything giscus-specific here. Best you can do is making sure you add the language (e.g. asm) after the triple-backticks, like so:

```asm
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Writes "Hello, World" to the console using only system calls. Runs on 64-bit Linux only.
; To assemble and run:
;
;     nasm -felf64 hello.asm && ld hello.o && ./a.out
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

          global    _start

          section   .text
_start:   mov       rax, 1                  ; system call for write
          mov       rdi, 1                  ; file handle 1 is stdout
          mov       rsi, message            ; address of string to output
          mov       rdx, 13                 ; number of bytes
          syscall                           ; invoke operating system to do the write
          mov       rax, 60                 ; system call for exit
          xor       rdi, rdi                ; exit code 0
          syscall                           ; invoke operating system to exit

          section   .data
message:  db        "Hello, World", 10      ; note the newline at the end
```

Result:

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Writes "Hello, World" to the console using only system calls. Runs on 64-bit Linux only.
; To assemble and run:
;
;     nasm -felf64 hello.asm && ld hello.o && ./a.out
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

          global    _start

          section   .text
_start:   mov       rax, 1                  ; system call for write
          mov       rdi, 1                  ; file handle 1 is stdout
          mov       rsi, message            ; address of string to output
          mov       rdx, 13                 ; number of bytes
          syscall                           ; invoke operating system to do the write
          mov       rax, 60                 ; system call for exit
          xor       rdi, rdi                ; exit code 0
          syscall                           ; invoke operating system to exit

          section   .data
message:  db        "Hello, World", 10      ; note the newline at the end