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There exist only C, C++, Java and C#?
Please, write a simple kernel that enters in protected mode in pure C.
Let's make this simpler, write a bignum library that takes advantage of x86's carry flag, adc and sbb.
Ok, all that is heavily architecture dependent, let's make it even simpler: Jump to a procedure. No? Manipulate the return stack? Neither? What kind of low-level programming are you doing if you haven't even control over the return stack?
Do you think low-level programming is all about accessing the OS API? What about OSes written in high-level language? Don't confound system programming with low-level programming, any language out there can act as a system programming language as much as C. Bit-twiddling? It's not like other languages don't provide bytevectors and bitwise operations. Short, int, long, unsigned and shit? My architecture has support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic were there's no distinction between them, what about now? (That falls under the bit-twiddling umbrella) Even Python has struct unpacking, again just it's playing with bit and bytes.
And don't even
try to say it is a portable assembler, which is complete bullshit and you know it. There's no such thing as a portable assembler, especially because some architectures may be particularly hostile to C.