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by Capricorn2481 506 days ago
> and please don't imply that C# is truly cross-platform, it's fine for web API's, it's not fine when dealing with actual system calls

What exactly do you mean by this? How are syscalls worse in C# than other languages?

My understanding is other "cross-compiled" languages have cumbersome ergonomics with syscalls. They all use System or OS libraries that hide complexity and OS differences to varying degrees of success.