System programming languages avoid allocations and unnecessary resource consumption. I'd say it's one of their hallmark characteristics. The programming conven

System programming languages avoid allocations and unnecessary resource consumption. I'd say it's one of their hallmark characteristics. The programming convenience of higher-level languages comes at a very substantial cost of requiring a complex runtime, more memory for data structures, unpredictable performance, and pushing complexity where it's not visible. One philosophy favors visibility over resources, the other favors convenience of use.