is assembly worth learning?

[careful]

so i'm learning a couple of programming languages simultaneously so i can get a job doing website/server-side programming, and i'm definitely not going to learn assembly for any architecture bcuz i'm not that interested in computers. but i'm curious, are people still learning assembly? i mean, i haven't really studied computers in any depth, but for the desktop and mobile devices, why would you bother to program that low-level? is it being taught in uni/college? i understand that the engineers who design the cpu would need to define the assembly language (or at know the historical conventions), but i'm talking about the programmer. for programmers working in java/c/php ect. is learning assembly an investment that can pay off?

 

[Slippers]

By learning assembly you tend to learn how a computer "thinks", which tends to be beneficial to the quality of ones code altogether.

And yes, there is a point to code in that "low a level". The reason assembly is nearly never used is because of the man-hours it'd require, not because it's useless. If you want speed, it's not that bad an idea to write some parts of a program in it.

However, that's of no concern to a web designer, for your choice of profession, putting the extra hours in the theory of design ought be more beneficial.