I'm a jack of all trades design engineer in the R&D space. Assembly is appropriate for the very low end of the 8-bit microcontroller space. Especially for timin

I'm a jack of all trades design engineer in the R&D space. Assembly is appropriate for the very low end of the 8-bit microcontroller space. Especially for timing critical code. Like a bit banged RS-232 port. There are still micros with only a few kb of flash. Can be hard to fit much of anything in there. You can do some amazing things in assembly if you're motivated, which tends to happen when you have a fifty cent budget for a micro, two weeks left for delivery of prototypes, and code left to write.