Operating systems are great abstractions. If the author ever wanted to build an actual application on top of kernel APIs they would appreciate things like boost

Operating systems are great abstractions. If the author ever wanted to build an actual application on top of kernel APIs they would appreciate things like boost or libc more. While not always perfect, the alternative of implementing purpose built abstractions is not worth it for 99% of projects long term. The author should look into golang which amazingly gives you one fully static binary (without dynamic linking glibc) and builds directly on top of kernel APIs. They will find reasons to rant about go itself though, I'm sure.