If you're interested in alternate languages along the lines of 'C with metaprogramming' (and without the bad stuff C++ forces you to deal with in some cases), y

If you're interested in alternate languages along the lines of 'C with metaprogramming' (and without the bad stuff C++ forces you to deal with in some cases), you may enjoy taking a look at Zig (https://ziglang.org/ https://ziglang.org/) or Rust (+ RAII).