I think one of the reasons OSs are written in low-level, shoot-yourself-in-the-foot ready languages is sometimes you need to do truly stupid things to make stu

I think one of the reasons OSs are written in low-level, shoot-yourself-in-the-foot ready languages is sometimes you need to do truly stupid things to make stuff work. Hardware doesn't do what it's supposed to and getting around it via some nutty hack is the way the world works.