Maintainability is a high-ranked concern for the project maintenance, for sure. But for the sake of the project's applicability and longevity, an even more imp

Maintainability is a high-ranked concern for the project maintenance, for sure. But for the sake of the project's applicability and longevity, an even more important reason to write it in C is portability. It's an OS, after all. Porting Menuet to another architecture would likely be a significant amount of work. Whereas most OSs have very limited arch-specific portions.