The point is that, "bare metal" is really a special case of programming. Most general purpose programming languages don't have features specific for web-progra

The point is that, "bare metal" is really a special case of programming. Most general purpose programming languages don't have features specific for web-programming imported by default. Nimrod supports bare metal programming just as fine as C. You just have to import the relevant modules, just as you'd import the URL module if you were writing a web-server. Nimrod aims at being approachable to some of the Python/Ruby crowd as well, who are used to numbers that are always signed and can't overflow. Defaulting to the biggest available signed integers, and discouraging library writers from throwing unsigned integers at you for no reason is a decent compromise.