>Practically all languages convert their programs to assembly because assembly is close to what the hardware understands It has been a long time since I did an

>Practically all languages convert their programs to assembly because assembly is close to what the hardware understands It has been a long time since I did any sort of dabbling/reading in the area but is that even true? Afaik very few languages that compile to executable machine code 'convert their programs to assembly'. They go directly from their internal AST/DFG/CFG representation to machine code, an intermediary stop at the ASM level would be unnecessary no?