[cibyr]

What's the alternative though? If you're fine with garbage collection, just use garbage collection. If you're _not_ fine with garbage collection (because you want deterministic performance, or you have resources that aren't just memory) then Rust's borrow checker seems like the best thing going.

[linkage]

You can use Zig, a faster, safer C with best-in-class metaprogramming for a systems-level language. It doesn't guarantee safety to the same extent as Rust but gets you 80% of the benefit with 20% of the pain.