Most of the stuff went over my head, Why should I care that C is no longer low-level? What exactly is considered close-to-metal in today’s time, apart from binary and assembly?

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      3 months ago

      At the time of writing this comment, does there exist any programming language ecosystem that does not stick to the “primitive” PDP-11 abstraction/virtual machine/whatever the author is trying to say? I’m just interested to know if such options do exist.