Even if it's possible, the change is not worth it. Transcribing leads to a horrible debug experience. Immature languages maintained by a single/few are a no-g

Even if it's possible, the change is not worth it. Transcribing leads to a horrible debug experience. Immature languages maintained by a single/few are a no-go. Your team already knows C and is good at it, finding new programmers is easy. You don't want another language, even if it's supported by GCC. If you want anything from C, then it's more safety guarantees. And C is flexible enough to run a better type system on top of it, e.g. look at what the kernel community is doing with `sparse`.