What was the reason for building Python on top of C?

• RustPython

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• ArnoldC

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Windows and Linux have different system calls, which are requests to the operating system. Some things that require system calls are input and output (reading and writing files, sending and receiving data over the internet, etc.) and allocating memory. When writing C code, some system calls are abstracted away behind the C standard library, but others are called directly so there needs to be different code for different operating systems. This is usually handled by preprocessor statements. For example, in this file lines 8 through 10 are ignored unless you are compiling for Windows: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/fileutils.c

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Critically, parts of libc. and it doesn’t need to, a libc is just an available and well tested base on all platforms. The C standard has some very very bad parts that you shouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. Unfortunately, when writing a C library, you kinda can’t get around it.

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Critically, parts of libc. and it doesn’t need to, a libc is just an available and well tested base on all platforms. The C standard has some very very bad parts that you shouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. Unfortunately, when writing a C library, you kinda can’t get around it.

• jython3

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There is a Repo in GitHub but It is only the Sandbox ( https://github.com/jython/jython3 )

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