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 ## Other notes
 
+Littlefs is written in C, and specifically should compile with any compiler
+that conforms to the `C99` standard.
+
 All littlefs calls have the potential to return a negative error code. The
 errors can be either one of those found in the `enum lfs_error` in
 [lfs.h](lfs.h), or an error returned by the user's block device operations.