[msla]

Because there's no easier way to access various libraries.

Yes, that library does things with pointers the new language can't prove are safe. It's been used for longer than you've been alive and it isn't changing. If a new language can't express what it's doing, well, the library isn't going to move, the language is. Therefore, I either have odd shims and contortions or I have C.

I await a Buzz Language to eventually have "inline C" the way C has inline assembly.