alt Hacker NewsKnowing assembly doesn’t mean you would spend your time writing assembly (aka being familiar with opcodes and architecture optimizations). But in the process, you get familiar with the working of the computer hardware and the OS that sits on top of it. That is always useful knowledge especially when needing to deal with binary format and protocols or FFI.
> But in the process..
Then it's sufficient to know assembly, but not necessary.
This is compatible with "[developers] that still understand assembly to this day tend to be better developers", but not with "[on developers who] don’t know assembly, which speaks to [their] quality".