When C is taken as the baseline, there&#x27;s a <i>very</i> long list of languages that look better for this sort of program. I don&#x27;t see a huge reason that init has to be C, or even particularly benefits from it. (<i>Specific</i> init implementations may have the advantage of being battle-tested, but that&#x27;s a characteristic of the program and time, not implementation language per se.)