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Encouraging C use is at this point, bordering on malpractice. I understand that the author is a leading authority in "secure C coding". While the ABI doesn't have a lot of affordances, we don't have to keep using the language because of the ABI.

Rather

ZetZ -- Symbolic Verifier and Transpiler to C. https://github.com/aep/zz and previous discussions, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22245409

Zig, https://ziglang.org/ https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ziglang

Rust is more of a C++ competitor, https://www.rust-lang.org/

And Dlang has a regime where it can be used w/o a GC. https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html

I left out any language which forces the use of a garbage collector.

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