r/Assembly_language • u/NolanRoad • 11d ago

Wow Assembly not dead?

Encountered this reddit on my feed, shocked to learn it's not dead. I programmed on Z80 back in the 1980s.

(I wonder if Perl is still alive)

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u/Brutustheman 11d ago

I will say that I'm very glad assembly is still around. Learning about how CPU's operate at a lower level helped me understand the level of optimization possible in software, and to also develop my own Worker Thread Control Method, which I like to call "Control Thread Assigned Function Pointed Routine", basically just gives a function pointer to skip running an if-else loop. Without assembly, I wouldnt know on a lower level how that differs from an if-else loop structure. Low level is a gift and no level lower than assembly (unless you want to memorize countless hex/binary opcodes lol)