Editing Systems programming (section)

== History ==
Originally systems programmers invariably wrote in [[assembly language]]. Experiments with hardware support in [[high level languages]] in the late 1960s led to such languages as [[IBM PL/S|PL/S]], [[BLISS]], [[BCPL]], and extended [[ALGOL]] for [[Burroughs large systems]]. [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]] also has applications as a systems language. 
In the 1970s, [[C (programming language)|C]] became widespread, aided by the growth of [[Unix]].
More recently a subset of [[C++]] called [[Embedded C++]] has seen some use, for instance it is used in the I/O Kit drivers of [[macOS]].<ref>{{cite web|author1=Apple Inc|title=I/O Kit Device Driver Design Guidelines|url=https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/WritingDeviceDriver/CPluPlusRuntime/CPlusPlusRuntime.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000695-BAJIBFDE|website=developer.apple.com|publisher=Apple Inc|access-date=16 September 2014|date=14 August 2009}}</ref>
Engineers working at [[Google]] created [[Go (programming language)|Go]] in 2007 to address developer productivity in large [[Distributed computing|distributed systems]], with developer-focused features such as [[Concurrency (computer science)|Concurrency]], [[Garbage collection (computer science)|Garbage Collection]], and faster program [[Compilation (computing)|compilation]] than C and C++.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering - The Go Programming Language |url=https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=go.dev |language=en}}</ref>
In 2015 [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]] came out, a general-purpose programming language often used in systems programming. Rust was designed with memory safety in mind and to be as performant as C and C++.