| ▲ | rhdunn 5 hours ago | |
ASM is still used in some areas, such as: 1. function trampolines, such as in libraries like ATL (Microsoft's COM template library); 2. hand-optimized encoders/decoders for things like ffmpeg; 3. niche applications such as Ben Eater's 6502 breadboard computer (using a modified WozMon and Microsoft BASIC); 4. reading ASM output from C/C++ code in things like the GodBolt site for performance comparisons/analysis; 5. reverse engineering old DOS games; 6. people working on things like compilers (generating optimized assembly), JIT engines, or other code generation -- though this will typically be machine code, possibly with assembly instruction comments; and other performance critical places where assembly can speed up that part of the code. | ||
| ▲ | romanovcode 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Absolutely, by 1% of developers. So analogy would be that those 1% would understand the code fully in the coming years. | ||