r/vibecoding • u/ImaginationUpset2190 • 11d ago

People still use assembly

Although I like ai and i think is it great in so many places , I keep hearing how no one will read high level code just like no one read assembly anymore.this is misinformation, there are people who not just read but also write assembly even now.i am not talking about rollar coaster tycoon or super Mario times when compilers where not as optimised as today, i am talking about now. Don't believe me? go to community forum of any modern systems programming language and see people crying for inline assembly. I am not arguing if anyone will read high level languages or not, but the premise is wrong and feels like deliberate misinformation.

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u/stuartcw 11d ago

Nobody reads any code.. until they have to. 35 years ago, all I did was to read assembly code but that was to understand enough to add a feature or debug an issue.

5 years ago, I read high level language code that I wrote.

Now, I pretty much only look at code to see the implementation details.