On the incompleteness of C: Postgres is a database, but also a runtime (fully custom memory management infrastructure), a standard library (custom string builder, linked list, hash map, sorting, ...), and even language (custom longjmp-based try/catch/raise mechanisms).
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(But other languages would make that far less cumbersome)
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True! With or without C, I suppose there’s some implicit wisdom that any sufficiently complex system will accumulate enough custom/complex requirements that it should expect to reimplement/significantly augment large parts of its substrate.
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