[Wowfunhappy]

I mean, they're still mostly using C. You can find inline assembly even today in e.g. video decoders like x264. Not a ton of course, but they do use it.

[klodolph]

x264 relies heavily on files written entirely in assembly, not just inline assembly.

Example: https://github.com/mirror/x264/blob/master/common/x86/dct-64...

[Wowfunhappy]

Oh—even better! So yeah, we still use assembly in the places where it’s absolutely performance critical, it’s not inherently anachronistic.