NASM is described as 'The Netwide Assembler, NASM, is an 80x86 and x86-64 assembler designed for portability and modularity. It supports a range of object file formats, including Linux and *BSD a.out, ELF, COFF, Mach-O, Microsoft 16-bit OBJ, Win32 and Win64. It will also output plain binary files' and is an app in the development category. There are seven alternatives to NASM for Windows, Linux, Haiku and Mac. The best NASM alternative is Yasm, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NASM are flat assembler, Pelles C, Easy code and MASM Builder.