Having programmed the 6502 and struggled with 8-bit arithmetic, I can only say that I don't believe it is a good first language at all. 32-bit ARM2 was so much more intuitive, where each and every instruction could be conditionally executed and there were 12? general purpose 32 bit registers in user mode.
If you're looking at this, you might want to also look at fleetdm (https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet), from which hosts that have osquery installed, can be queried.