Comment by applfanboysbgon

At my most charitable, I would give the author credit for knowing that assembly is not low-level by his own definition, but nonetheless intentionally misleads readers who do not know that assembly does not expose speculative execution instructions any more than C does. If the author knew this, and his central premise were that no low-level programming language existed anymore, the article would be titled differently and he wouldn't be making the arguments against C specifically. Really, that would be an entirely different article if written honestly. But this is essentially packaged as clickbait that takes advantage of ignorant readers to make the author sound smarter and more insightful than he really is, and still contains logical errors perpetuated as misinformation to the readers who don't know better. After writing out my charitable interpretation of the author's capabilities, this interpretation only leaves me more disgusted with the article as a writing output.