@jhx I would like to draw the valued attention of the audience to #DuffsDevice. I think it proves that #C indeed is a portable #assembler 😎

But seriously, many C constructs map very nicely to machine instructions of many platforms, so there is some truth to it.

I only ever touch assembler for the #MOS6502 because its instruction set and general design (e.g. the fixed system-wide and pretty small stack) indeed isn't a great match for C...