I know that the response I'm about to give makes a statement that is not falsifiable and very much has the form of "I can cart this out and think I'm right no m

I know that the response I'm about to give makes a statement that is not falsifiable and very much has the form of "I can cart this out and think I'm right no matter WHAT you respond," but I still feel compelled to say... ...the point I'm making is absolutely not that building an OS is equally hard in all languages, and equally likely to be buggy. My point is that creating a general purpose OS that only gets its rigorous testing from getting put into production before the majority of its target hardware has even yet been developed... that's going to be buggy in all languages. Designing and running an OS on a known system with a few applications in mind can't really refute what I'm saying. I mean, I could of course be wrong. But I can't imagine a convincing counter-example that doesn't have for its evidence "largescale adoption on disparate systems." (there could be an in-principle reason that I'm wrong that I just don't understand, but this is the risk we take in having opinions)