In the past 15 years ARM has continued to steamroll the embedded field making those weird/small architectures discussed in the article more and more obscure and

In the past 15 years ARM has continued to steamroll the embedded field making those weird/small architectures discussed in the article more and more obscure and niche. Using C instead of asm is pretty much the norm on ARM For reference, STM32 series, launched in 2007, were one of the earliest Cortex-M MCUs.