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Every language tries to implement the best in class memory set/search primitives. Maybe we should move them to something called libos, where they will be implemented by every host OS? Then, OS manufacturers can supply libos.so/libos.dll/libos.dylib as part of the official OS distributions.

If the wheels get reinvented again and again, it means that they should be readily available.

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There is an existing concept called an exokernel. Moreover, I think Zig could be very suitable for this, because it already encourages passing allocators to functions to make memory allocation explicit. Recently, I/O has been (and is still being) reworked in a similar way.

Isn’t this what libc is? Like musl-libc or glibc

libc is de jure for C language in Unix-like systems. De facto, it is used for other things and by other languages creating a bit of an architectural mess.

What I am talking about is creating a cross-vendor standard.

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