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When you get down to it, all the code really just ends up being machine code. Many popular languages now allow you to build interfaces to use the generic C libraries.

This lets you do the complicated, high-level stuff in a language suited for it, and do the nitty-gritty stuff in C or your favorite compiled language.

It's very important to pick the right tool for the job, and these days that doesn't even have to be one tool at a time.