>For me, rust is the first real competitor in the systems programming market. There are hundreds of languages for application programming. I prefer Haskell, Jav

>For me, rust is the first real competitor in the systems programming market. There are hundreds of languages for application programming. I prefer Haskell, Java and JS for those but I've never found a replacement for C in the low-level domain There is Pascal I have used Pascal as safe C alternative for twenty years It has solved all the C problems. Strings/Arrays know their length, you can enable range/overflow checking, reference counting ...