It depends. If you're writing a math kernel that will be deployed to a billion IoT devices each with a lifetime of 10 years, you may want to spend some more dev

It depends. If you're writing a math kernel that will be deployed to a billion IoT devices each with a lifetime of 10 years, you may want to spend some more developer time to shave a few cycles in assembly language. If you're writing some single-use script to automate a single job, do it in the easiest high level language with the library support that you need.