@lispi314 @kaia @chjara MathML is the same thing as shoving everything in s-expressions: Math cannot be efficiently represented in a tree of nodes, but people will still try hard to do it.

> By all means no new C software should be written save for that needed to help with its deprecation.

How do you use syscalls and ioctls on linux without parsing C at some point?
OpenBSD even wants to require usage of the libc for syscalls.
Most people will want to use PAM at some point for authentication, which is C-only.
Etc, etc, …
See why Java, Go, Rust, … link to the libc.