Ignore them. Keep going. Debates like these are “Since you said X, Y can’t be true” kind of debates. As long as you have access to be able to do assembly, you should be able to do this. I say you because this is way out of my wheelhouse. I just want a cleaner, less mine-field laden, OO language that compiles to machine code. That’s it. We can stick a feather in this until this time a decade from now when we complain about it again.