You're entitled to your opinion, of course - language is subjective afterall - but the meaning of the word "hacking" as I'm using it comes from the MIT hacking community as described by Richard Stallman [0] [1].
I agree. I was looking into how you start a child process in C++ recently and I was surprised and not at all surprised to find that the answer is still fork and execve. Ridiculous.
what? what's the point?
for me it's the most annoying thing when the simple stuff is hard because why would it be?