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like, C’s underlying concept of how the CPU works is just as abstract and arbitrary as Lua’s set of abstractions or Lisp’s. the only reason why C is fast is because CPUs were designed around making it fast by pretending to be the type of CPU that C was originally made for, and then compilers on top of that are able to optimize it even more. so all of the finicky technical details that C makes you keep track of are essentially fake - as if it’s running on a virtual machine