I perhaps explained poorly in two cases: I'd knock serious points for anyone who mentioned any languages (except in the context of talking about low-level feat

I perhaps explained poorly in two cases: I'd knock serious points for anyone who mentioned any languages (except in the context of talking about low-level features of that language that would help solve the problem), and I don't see it as "systems programming" because it absolutely could be answered at the application level. It could also be solved with a battery pack (systems level) or immutable storage (hardware level), to name a couple others. The point is giving folks an opportunity to talk in the areas of their experience, and the strongest devs have taken a break from VSCode to do other stuff which adds value to solving problems holistically.