There are still a ton of assembly programmers out there, and it's a mystery to me why any sane application or website would need to crunch that much processing power through a front-end scripting language, like JavaScript. I honestly feel like this is a generation in technology where there is a huge gap between applications and their platforms. It almost makes me wish that Java really had become the dominant language and platform, because in the age of browser apps, mobile apps, and really a dead space of user applications on desktop platforms, it has become the most logical solution to everything.
