Rust was made specifically to fill this void. The only problem is that libraries you would want to use (ie for a video game or audio player) are written in C/C+

Rust was made specifically to fill this void. The only problem is that libraries you would want to use (ie for a video game or audio player) are written in C/C++, and therefore much easier to interface with using C/C++. Fortunately that is changing at a fairly good pace. The most difficult thing about using Rust instead of C is that you must wrap your head around the borrow checker.