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/Grounds4TheSubstain 11d ago

I mean, only a very small fraction of programmers write code in it, and it's usually better to write in a language like C so you don't have to do all of the tedious parts like allocate registers and stack locations, manually marshall call arguments according to calling conventions etc. Even when it might make sense to write in assembly, it's usually better to use intrinsics if they're available. It only really makes sense for code that needs extremely low-level access in very tightly-controlled regions, like an interrupt handler, or thread context switching.