this is very true but i gotta defend my object-oriented languages here (real object-oriented, not c++-style object-oriented). there's a lot of way cooler stuff you can do with ruby or groovy or smalltalk that you just can't do with rust, for example. objects aren't special cases, the entire system is supposed to be implementable in itself. obviously the machine code itself can't be objects but the good languages do their best to mask that.