[gabereiser]

>”Learning assembly language is basically useless at this point.”

I whole heartedly disagree. There’s an entire class of performance tuning you can do to math intensive applications that absolutely require knowledge of assembly to squeeze that last 0.5% out of the machine.

Video Games, Video Editing, Image Editing, Simulations, Scientific applications, all benefit from having some assembly sprinkled into their algorithms for speed.

Because of this, I don’t need crates or packages to do things for me, I’m capable of doing it on my own. I’m capable of building a 64kb demo scene executable. I’m capable of building a hardware accelerated video decoder. I’m capable of parallel vector operations because I can haz assembly. I can disassemble and reassemble binaries, libraries, files, stacks. I can even inject my own code.

If you have no need for speed and efficiency, then I’m sure a browser-based desktop app with some JavaScript will be fine for your use case.

[keldaris]

Completely agree with all of that, but I would add that even if you never have to write any assembly at all, just the ability to read your own code in disassembled form is a superpower. It's not hard to learn the basics and, in addition to the ability to debug performance issues, it will forever inoculate you against the "magic compiler" delusion and keep your code somewhat grounded when you actually see what any new abstraction actually turns into.