Of course you’re free to make your own choices, but I find it weird to accept relying on many lines of Linux kernel code and then not wanting to reuse a relatively small number of lines of an existing malloc.

The reverse (running on bare metal and tweaking an existing malloc to run on it) looks way more logical to me.

> No other system lets you avoid the libc.

On most OSes [1] it’s relatively easy to write a libOS that just wraps the system calls. Your only dependency would be on the mapping to syscall numbers.

[1] OpenBSD is/may be (I don’t know the status of these) an exception. See https://man.openbsd.org/pinsyscalls.2, https://lwn.net/Articles/949078/