> Those language runtimes exist since the 60's, 10 years before C created the urban myth of being the first systems language I don't know what's your point her

> Those language runtimes exist since the 60's, 10 years before C created the urban myth of being the first systems language I don't know what's your point here, or why you keep repeating this on HN hundreds of times. I didn't ever hear anyone claiming it was the "first systems language". Nor do I care. (We all want a better language. I haven't tried many, but any other systems language I've seen I've found awkward, starting with Pascal with its mess of 1-based vs 0-based indexing, case insensitivity, weird mix of ref-counted / manually managed, weird syntax choices, mess of basic string types, requirement to create tons of typealiases... going to older languages that have upper-case only identifiers, for example). As to rest - it's just a matter of libraries. Not runtimes. EDIT: it seems some definitions of runtime include standard libraries. So, whatever.