> there's a lot of this higher level stuff in a supposably lower level language I feel like you're suggesting that "high level stuff" is bad because it's "high

> there's a lot of this higher level stuff in a supposably lower level language I feel like you're suggesting that "high level stuff" is bad because it's "high level stuff." In my opinion, the goal of low level languages is to operate under certain constraints. If you can operate under those constraints and still include "high level stuff," then you should.