Comment by usrnm
3 years ago
Almost every program written in some programming language depends on the runtime provided by this programming language. Very few programming languages even let you to opt out of using the runtime. Which means that if the runtime needs something, then your program also needs it. Complexity doesn't magically go away when you put it into a library
It’s not so much about using the code as it is about writing the code (or at least, providing utilities to the code being written). Yes every program uses the runtime, but very few people write the runtime. That is, perhaps the default provided to end users should be arena allocators, keeping a general malloc for special cases.