What kind of projects (besides the obvious OS stuff) use assembly language?

Question

Seemingly, no one uses assembly nowadays other than to develop device drivers, or the very core of OS kernels etc. Anyone has knowledge of it being currently used for other thin

Answer 1

One of the rate determining code (after whatever is needed dynamic for memory management) in nearly every language is the routine used by the runtime (-library) to move memory. Move(), memcpy etc, as well as primitives like searching for a byte (strchr ) etc.

These quite often written in assembler too, with special dedicated code to exploit alignment.