My feeling is that most such systems programming specialists are too busy working for their employers in the hardware, OS and embedded industries, to blog or pa

My feeling is that most such systems programming specialists are too busy working for their employers in the hardware, OS and embedded industries, to blog or participate actively in discussion forums. They are members of the "dark matter developers" group [1]. That said, a github search for assembly language repos and assembly language code phrases throws up some 270 repos and upwards of 100,000 code files. So I don't think asm is doing too badly. Your experience is probably only anecdotal. May I suggest that you contribute your bit to popularising asm by putting up some of your projects here on Show HN. There must be other people like me who have been intimately familiar with asm in the past and felt the thrill of coding in it, but have lost touch with it and now feel intimidated by its verbosity. Some interesting projects may rekindle that interest. For example, recently there was a "Show HN" of a bare bones assembly language game written by students for the raspberry pi, and that made me start learning ARM assembly. Put up something like that, or even something a lot simpler (personally, I'd be interested in a beginner's tutorial on coding and building a simple console program for Windows and Linux platforms, using modern x86_64 assembler and modern tools). [1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen99.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen9...