[scarface_74]

In 1985, any time I needed any level of performance on my 1Mhz Apple //e, I still had to use assembly or when BASIC didn’t expose the functionality I needed. Mostly around double hires graphics and sound.

[jgrahamc]

Yep. That stuff was necessary then and still is today. Just look at DeepSeek doing low(er) level NVIDIA stuff and making the GPUs work hard.