It's becoming less common just like programmers who love assembly language are becoming less common. The entire history of CS could be summed up as a move towa

It's becoming less common just like programmers who love assembly language are becoming less common. The entire history of CS could be summed up as a move towards higher and higher levels of abstraction. They still expose you to assembly language in good CS programs as sort of a history lesson or to give you a deeper understanding of how it works underneath, but that doesn't mean people actually want to use it. C is of course nowhere near as far along that path as assembly language, but it's a spectrum and seems to moving in that direction.