Systems Language

A language designed for writing operating systems, device drivers and other software that needs close control over memory and hardware, typically without a garbage-collected runtime by default. This is a common industry term, not a distinct ACM Computing Classification System Language-types node. Belongs here: Rust, the atlas's sole systems-language entity. Does not belong here: a general-purpose procedural language such as C, which this atlas files under Procedural Language following the founding wave's own convention, even though C is also commonly used to write systems software.