[brown]

Learning assembly was profound for me, not because I've used it (I haven't in 30 years of coding), but because it completed the picture - from transistors to logic gates to CPU architecture to high-level programming. That moment when you understand how it all fits together is worth the effort, even if you never write assembly professionally.

[renox]

While I think that learning assembly is very useful, I think that one must be careful at applying assembly language concepts in a HLL C/X++/Zig..

For example, an HLL pointer is different from an assembly pointer(1). Sure the HLL pointer will be lowered to an assembly language pointer eventually but it still has a different semantic.

1: because you're relying on the compiler to use efficiently the registers, HLL pointers must be restricted otherwise programs would be awfully slow as soon as you'd use one pointer.

[Daniel_Van_Zant]

This out of everything, convvinced me. The more I get the "full picture" the more I appreciate what a wondrous thing computers are. I've learned all the way down to Forth/C and from the bottom up to programming FPGAs with Verilog so Assembly may be just what I need to finally close that last gap.