> Go would be close… but it requires bundling a bunch of libraries in with each binary and wasn’t designed for low-level development. Again unsuitable. Go has

> Go would be close… but it requires bundling a bunch of libraries in with each binary and wasn’t designed for low-level development. Again unsuitable. Go has a garbage collector and doesn't allow for manual memory management which would rule it out entirely. This adds a requirement for the go runtime, which is a further nonstarter.