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From here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006411

"At some stage in the future we may be able to move IOKit over to a good programming language"

DriverKit was the NeXTSTEP 3 driver environment, and it was written in ObjC. In ... | Hacker News

Funnily enough, there is a (different) DriverKit in macOS again now ;)
I guess having targeted multiple architectures and in the case of OPENSTEP also operating systems early on certainly helped.