While I see what you're saying, I doubt you would claim to 'use' assembly when writing a C++ codebase - because (unless you're doing very low-level hand optimiz

While I see what you're saying, I doubt you would claim to 'use' assembly when writing a C++ codebase - because (unless you're doing very low-level hand optimizations of the kind that get ever rarer), someone else has done the hard work of creating a compiler to do the translation for you. Same thing with NumPy et al, except one level higher up the abstraction stack.