I get that everyone has their specialty -- Im not trying to imply that someone that writes javascript for a living is a lesser coder or everything should be native. My point is that there are fundamentals to this craft, and all these web developers acting like C is exotic knowledge baffles me. With regard to your first point though, I actually do think knowing some form of assembly is also super useful. I just tend to focus on C since as is well known, its basically portable assembly.