I agree with that. I have spent the last 45 years doing embedded
programming mostly in C or Assembler.
Even if some of the architectures were a bit unusual (Intel 80XXX, TI
9900, RCA 1802, HP-41 and HP-71) or a bit sparse (PDP-8 and Epson 4 bit
watch CPU). The only assembly I really didn't enjoy was 80XXX and the 6502.
For obscure languages APL, LISP, Prolog, ADA, Occam & Pilot come to
mind. Focal, though widely used on DEC computers seems to have died
with the demise of DEC itself.
On 6/16/2026 8:48 PM, Ken Seefried via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:
As for assembly language, that certainly is still alive.
FFMpeg has a crazy amount of asm. This is the code that is used by
virtually everything that streams video over the Internet (like YouTube,
Netflix, TikTok). And from an asm perspective, that's pretending the
entire embedded world doesn't exist.
KJ
