Hey Joos, ah appreciated!

I'd check out tigerstyle.dev, pick up Zig, and then make an HTTP server or file format parser. Those are great ways to learn and experience this kind of programming. At some point, you start to realize that it's just easier to build API services in this way.

But for sure, you can learn so much in JVM-based languages. They make you appreciate low-level techniques all the more!