"great for GUIs, not so great for writing drivers" NeXTStep had DriverKit, a framework for writing drivers in Objective-C, and this was on 1990s-era PCs. Drive

"great for GUIs, not so great for writing drivers" NeXTStep had DriverKit, a framework for writing drivers in Objective-C, and this was on 1990s-era PCs. Driver performance is I/O-bound and typically has little to do with the language the driver was compiled in.