[shcheklein]

Probably people at some point were making same arguments about ASM and C. How many people though do ASM these days? Not arguing that for now it is relevant point, obviously Rust / C are way faster.

[IshKebab]

I doubt it. C is well within 2x of what you can achieve with hand written assembly in almost every case.

Furthermore writing large programs in pure assembly is not really feasible, but writing large programs in C++, Go, Rust, Java, C#, Typescript, etc. is totally feasible.

[pjmlp]

1980's and 1990's game development says hi.

C compilers weren't up to stuff, that is why books like those from Michael Abrash do exist.

[theLiminator]

> I doubt it. C is well within 2x of what you can achieve with hand written assembly in almost every case.

Depends what you mean, if you preclude using targeted ASM in your C I think some hot loops can be much slower than 2x.

Of course programs globally written in assembly largely don't make sense.