[elcritch]

You might try out Nim. It has a low annotation noise level. The python like syntax feels odd for a systems language at first but since it’s statically typed it works well. The simpler syntax seems to work very well with LLMs too.

Basically it’s a better C/C++ for me and sits between C and C++ in complexity.

I tried Zig for a while years ago but found the casts and other annotations frustrating. And at the time the language was pretty unstable in how it applied those rules. Plus I’ve never found a use for custom allocators, even on embedded.