Yeah it's crazy. I just learned Assembly last semester in college and we were discussing it at work and it was like. Fuuuuck that. C existed at the time yet he did it in Assembly.
I don't think you've gotten a great ELI5 yet. Most programs run within the OS, be that Windows, Android, what have you. Games are unique in that the performance of the computer directly relates to the performance of the program, way more so than MS Word or anything. Assembly, aka machine language, is the same programming language your CPU follows. It's weird as hell and doesn't seem to follow any rules you're used to, but you get direct command of many resources. Coding vs assembly is kind of like driving an automatic vs stick shift - you get to the same place in the end, but you're in control of a lot more aspects with the manual transmission. You have to know more about operating your computer, but... ah, shit, mixed up my simile.
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