David] is building a project with an OLED, a keyboard, and an RP2040. He’s perfected a scanning routine in C to work with the ...

And once you start talking about memory access, direct or indirect, the individual architectures of the chips demand different assembly languages.

"NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++, to a memory safe language when possible.

Assembly applications are still much smaller than comparable applications written in HLLs. Though machines have considerable memory and disk space today, space is still an important consideration.

Linus Torvalds weighs in on Rust language in the Linux kernel "Memory managed languages? In my kernel?" It's more likely than you think.