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> Nothing as close to the metal as Rust has that baked in today

You should have a look at what's going on in Scala-land, with scala-native¹ (and perhaps the Gears² library for direct style/capabilities)

I like this style, though it's been too new and niche to get a taste of it being used at scale.

¹: https://scala-native.org/ ²: https://github.com/lampepfl/gears