> even C has a tiny runtime Which functions are required for a C program to run aside from those that it run explicitly? memcpy? It's basically a missing CPU i

> even C has a tiny runtime Which functions are required for a C program to run aside from those that it run explicitly? memcpy? It's basically a missing CPU instruction. malloc will never get called unless you call it yourself. > followed by history of systems programming languages, starting with JOVIAL in 1958. All system languages (e. g. BLISS, PL/S, NEWT) designed as such before C was vendor-specific. Some of these had nice things missing from C, but none propagated beyond their original platform. And today we have no option but C. > "Typescript for C" came out in 1983. C++ is not just "not perfect", it is far worse in every way. Let's let people overload everything. And let's overload shift operator to do IO. And make every error message no less than 1000 lines, with actual error somewhere in the middle. Let's break union and struct type punning because screw you that's why. You say C macros are unreadable? Behold, template metaprogramming! C is not perfect, but it has the justification of being minimal. C++ is a huge garbage dumpster on fire.