>unportable

(X) Doubt.

It's no stretch to say many a HN user can, easily, port such a trivial program to other assembly languages.

it's not (and I don't think it's supposed to)

Yeah, that seems like just a factual statement to me.

If you start from the premise that everything is a flex, then you can easily confirmation bias your way into reading it that way, but IMHO that's not a helpful way to live life unless you want to feel like everybody is constantly flexing regardless of whether they are or not.