Our recent experiments demonstrate the kernel can be shrunk down to almost 3MB by garbage collecting unneeded code, extracting ZFS code into a library, and keeping only drivers needed to boot on Firecracker and QEMU microVM - .
I'd rather work with a language that lets me say things as I want to say them, and work to speed up the things that seem too slow where that turns out to matter, than begin by tying my hands and saying the only expressional paradigms I may consider are those that are known on the day I start programming to be a particular speed.
the world does not need more people who think they know a lot of advanced stuff when they don't know shit about the basic stuff that it is made up of, or how it came to be.