Comment by sim7c00

what do you understand as 'systems programming'?

there are people making operating systems for AMD64 in Pascal etc.... so there's plenty of choices, odd and even ones.

some examples of different interpretations of 'systems programming'.

low level systems code - like interacting with devices directly on bare metal. (mmio/io etc.)

kernel code - like writing a new subsystem in linux, which uses other drivers.

high-level systems - like game engines, automation frameworks, other high performance oriented systems-with-lot-of-subsystems?

These different domains, on different targets, might have more or less plausible options for you to try.