+1 for mentioning Rust. Which in contrast to C++ has all the goodies without the runtime dependencies. I wouldn't say LLVM is such a great restriction, except

+1 for mentioning Rust. Which in contrast to C++ has all the goodies without the runtime dependencies. I wouldn't say LLVM is such a great restriction, except when talking about embedded (too few architectures supported here). The major desktop and server architectures are supported (AFAIK), even WASM.