Do you think C had any major meaning outside UNIX, before it got largely adopted in the industry?
It was just yet another language with dialects that had some kind of compatibility, with Small-C being the most used one.
For the second point, also not an issue unless the language doesn't support FFI.
The beauty of runtimes, instead of bare bones C, is that they can be tuned to make the best of each OS APIs, while keeping the code portable.
This is nothing new, it was quite common outside AT&T.
Do you think C had any major meaning outside UNIX, before it got largely adopted in the industry?
It was just yet another language with dialects that had some kind of compatibility, with Small-C being the most used one.
For the second point, also not an issue unless the language doesn't support FFI.
The beauty of runtimes, instead of bare bones C, is that they can be tuned to make the best of each OS APIs, while keeping the code portable.
This is nothing new, it was quite common outside AT&T.