> Every language ends up having to deal with either hardware or system libraries There's a big difference between using a C library which does extra processing

> Every language ends up having to deal with either hardware or system libraries There's a big difference between using a C library which does extra processing + maybe uses some syscalls and doing the syscalls directly. The interface is much stricter for the system interface and the memory ownership is better defined. You don't have to think about the library using a different allocator than the app does. So no, I wouldn't say every language needs to do that. Golang definitely didn't https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36435 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36435