Another thing to look into is to write things in Rust. It will be as fast as C code, but a little nicer to work with. Right now the problem with that is that yo

Another thing to look into is to write things in Rust. It will be as fast as C code, but a little nicer to work with. Right now the problem with that is that you don't have the nice libraries for whatever you're doing. But if people actually wrote fast Rust libraries for everything, they're as easy to embed into your apps as C.