David] is building a project with an OLED, a keyboard, and an RP2040. He’s perfected a scanning routine in C to work with the ...

And once you start talking about memory access, direct or indirect, the individual architectures of the chips demand different assembly languages.

Simply put, assembly programming moves your data byte by byte through hardware registers and memory. What made programming the PDP-11 different was that the minicomputer's design was elegant.

"NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++, to a memory safe language when possible.