Rust is also terribly overcomplicated and a mishmash salad of different languages, so much so that in the end, it's just simpler to call ld(1) on a .o file directly.

Embedded development.

> ELF golf

actually turns out to be important in embedded work

In high-assurance fields, the mindset is all code is malicious, buggy garbage until proven otherwise by rigorous analysis. That means everything we include will cost us. If we don't use it, we don't include it by default to save us work.