I feel like Rust is the most obvious one. I've seen a slew of common Linux tools being rewritten in Rust recently (https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-ru

I feel like Rust is the most obvious one. I've seen a slew of common Linux tools being rewritten in Rust recently (https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#system-tools https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#system-tools).