Many of the comments here are focusing on Rust as the obvious alternative, but it's great that the article twice also mentions Swift and Rust together as the ob

Many of the comments here are focusing on Rust as the obvious alternative, but it's great that the article twice also mentions Swift and Rust together as the obvious choices. If Swift ever gets more adoption outside Apple's platforms, it will be a game-changer. It's a very elegant language with much stronger typing than C++. It feels like writing in a scripting language but retains the type and memory safety.