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Discussion on: I coded in assembler on the Commodore Amiga in the early 90s, ask me anything!

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Bertil Muth

No, I don’t. On the Amiga, you didn’t really have a choice. Even relatively close-to-the-metal languages like C had a far worse performance on the Amiga for the kinds of applications I was writing (graphics intensive, real-time).

Today, I think there is only a small niche left where assembler is useful. Even cars, that have heavy real-time requirements, mostly run on C.