and people calling C "close to the metal" overlooks all the things it does abstract over; mostly just that it has pointers and lacks GC...
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It reflects the _resource model_ well, which is a really important thing that most people overlook.
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ok. but it provides a high-level type model; abstracts over memory layout; hides most ISA specific details (registers/opcodes/...); ...
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Memory layout not entirely, because of Representation of Types.
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I mean like, it can mostly gloss over things like struct field offsets and relative offset between local vars and the stack pointer, ...
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