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		silentOpen on Jan 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unikernels are unfit for production > An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one. ~ Daniel Ingalls, co-creator of Smalltalk http://web.archive.org/web/20070213165045/users.ipa.net/%7Ed...

pjmlp on Jan 23, 2016 [–]

Yep.

C and C++ are the outliers here.

Although C++ is moving into a richer runtime, thus increasing the likelihood to write OS independent code without relying on third party libraries.

Even C, if POSIX had been part of ANSI C, would fall into this scenario.

In a way, UNIX can be seen as C's original runtime.

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