Does cross-developing in 6502 asm still give much advantage compared to C (via e.g. cc65)? Or have modern tools more or less closed the gap? The question arose

Does cross-developing in 6502 asm still give much advantage compared to C (via e.g. cc65)? Or have modern tools more or less closed the gap? The question arose after I played the impressive modern atari 8-bit (48kb ram) game His Dark Majesty [1], which development the author documented on his homepage [2] & used c. [1] http://hdm.atari.pl/ http://hdm.atari.pl/ [2] http://hdm.atari.pl/development.html http://hdm.atari.pl/development.html