It’s not that crazy when you consider that C has been the lingua franca of OS development for 50 years with a very thin library interface that’s been ported to every single platform under the sun. That’s a pretty sane maintenance choice all things considered since every single other language linked against libc for those 50 years, especially since the underlying hardware and OS has evolved (easier to maintain a highly standardized C library with the high level semantics you wish to standardize vs magic values in registers that are fixed for the duration of that platform and sometimes even across platforms.
I think Go was the first language that tried to buck that trend and it did not go well (aside from Linux).
