If you provide a non-opinionated base platform, users will add opinions, and those will not all be compatible with each other. Not adding GC or not defining ho

If you provide a non-opinionated base platform, users will add opinions, and those will not all be compatible with each other. Not adding GC or not defining how exceptions work could easily lead to a situation where you want to use a couple of third-party libraries, but discover they, combined, use three different garbage-collecting memory allocators and two different ways to handle exceptions, even where function overloading works differently in different libraries. As an example, look at string implementations in various C programs. Even if they if they boil down to a pair (int, malloced memory), you still might not be able to pass one obtained from a function in one library to a function in another library.