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by samus 1698 days ago
This is natural due to the low-level nature of a language implementation. And at some point, what's truly going on is often hidden behing a compiler intrinsic or a foreign function call to the runtime.

At the same time, there are going to be parts of the standard library that are less platform-specific and thus more readable, for example the Java Collection Framework.