No, you're just wrong. What parent means is something like COM or GObject. The C ABI is too limited and still requires you to build things on top of it.
It's kinda like saying all you need is bytes. From the perspective of the kernel this might be fine because it isn't supposed to prescribe a particular method but user processes must still agree on a character encoding or a protocol they are going to run on top of those bytes.
It's kinda like saying all you need is bytes. From the perspective of the kernel this might be fine because it isn't supposed to prescribe a particular method but user processes must still agree on a character encoding or a protocol they are going to run on top of those bytes.