If you could write an OS from scratch...

Okay, so most every OS out there is C-based.  If you could magically write a complete hardware-controlling OS all the way up to the UI and applications using a different language, which would you choose?

Though I like Lisp, I think I'd have to choose Erlang, maybe NewSqueak for embedded/smaller systems.

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Oh boy. Did you just actually quote the shootout benchmark...

Just for the record, I have not been trolled, since I know that the C guys cheat. Using APR and implicit threading, which is against the rules of the benchmark

I've tried committing contributions to them that were discarded because I tried to create a thread. Try to look through all the C and C++ examples :P