I think the consensus on the definition of _system_ languages is currently very shaky. For a long time you would expect languages with the ability to develop op

I think the consensus on the definition of _system_ languages is currently very shaky. For a long time you would expect languages with the ability to develop operating systems (in the classic sense, providing a hardware abstraction layer, etc.), but more and more I get the feeling that people just mean "not JavaScript". If this is a good or bad development will (or already is, as we have seen in discussions concerning Go) be the topic of many flame wars.