> This is because of how much of the unix clone ecosystem has been built around C workflows, and this wasn't true on Windows until linux compatibility was devel

> This is because of how much of the unix clone ecosystem has been built around C workflows, and this wasn't true on Windows until linux compatibility was developed on it. Because C (and its close relatives like C++) is still the only language suitable for systems development. Just booting any other language on bare metal is enough of an achievement that people loudly brag when they get it to just barely work. If you get it to work in C then nobody is surprised, because C is engineered for systems. Other languages aren't. > convincing linus and sysadmin greybeards to modernize linux and is no small task, until then we'll all still be just be scripting over archaic C apis I'm not sure replacing C with a worse language constitutes "modernizing".