I'm pretty happy with C as it is, but I will admit to being surprised that a "minimalistic Rust" hasn't risen to prominence. I guess what I mean by that is a l

I'm pretty happy with C as it is, but I will admit to being surprised that a "minimalistic Rust" hasn't risen to prominence. I guess what I mean by that is a language that has Rust's hyperactive, strongly opinionated compiler, borrow checker, no NULL, immutable by default, etc, but in a language that is no more syntactically ambitious that C89. I would be way more into a language like that than Rust. A language that sort of feels like Go, but can actually be used for low-level systems programming.