> Only C (and therefore to some extent C++) is the first class citizen in all the major OS families we care about, because the C ABI is the standard for compile

> Only C (and therefore to some extent C++) is the first class citizen in all the major OS families we care about, because the C ABI is the standard for compiled objects (whether executable or library). Well, on Windows there's COM for this, which is technically the C ABI too, but really deserves to be considered its own thing.