alt Hacker NewsCalling it from C does not mean you need a full C standard library to exist. For example, much of the C standard library is itself written in C. But it's a "freestanding" C which assumes only a minimal set of library functions exist (e.g. functions for copying memory from one place to another, filling memory with zeroes, etc).
And you can of course use non-C languages to call the Win32 API. Or even directly using assembly code.
> you can of course use non-C languages to call the Win32 API. Or even directly using assembly code.
Is that a supported/official API though? On Linux you "can" put your arguments in registers and trigger the system call interrupt directly, and I think Go programs even do this, but it's not the official interface and they reserve the right to break your program in future updates, at least in theory.