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by smoldesu 1095 days ago
> does it offer anything natively without interfacing with C/C++ that validates it to be called a general purpose language.

In fairness, a huge amount of C/C++ functionality is managed by the kernel anyways. I'd bet most of the stuff C is used for in this situation could be replaced with Python code, but isn't for maintainability and performance purposes.