Of course assembly is still relevant and important, some examples of a real life: Microchip has a microcontroller series, pic12, who had code memory about 1kB, Motorola and others either, these low-end devices are become more used in devices such as car peripherals, household-electric and other. And for a high efficiency of the code,the only possible choice is Assembly, another example is where the realtime at extreme make sense.
The need of assembly is the context, depends on many factors, and these are only some examples.
Assembly disadvantages compared with another languages like C are relevant, like code portability, but only the project will help to do this choice. And learn Assembly is still really necessary, including the need of make compilers to another languages.
This is my opinion, is about embedded systems, but there a lot of more applications of the assembly, and I repeat, assembly is still relevant today!
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Of course assembly is still relevant and important, some examples of a real life: Microchip has a microcontroller series, pic12, who had code memory about 1kB, Motorola and others either, these low-end devices are become more used in devices such as car peripherals, household-electric and other. And for a high efficiency of the code ,the only possible choice is Assembly, another example is where the realtime at extreme make sense.
The need of assembly is the context, depends on many factors, and these are only some examples.
Assembly disadvantages compared with another languages like C are relevant, like code portability, but only the project will help to do this choice. And learn Assembly is still really necessary, including the need of make compilers to another languages.
This is my opinion, is about embedded systems, but there a lot of more applications of the assembly, and I repeat, assembly is still relevant today!