You might be interested in Zig[1]. Allocation is manual. Standard library containers and functions require an allocator to be passed to them, so nothing allocat

You might be interested in Zig[1]. Allocation is manual. Standard library containers and functions require an allocator to be passed to them, so nothing allocates on the heap unless it's explicitly told to. Cleanup can be done at end of scope via defer / errdefer. Seamless interop with C, even when cross compiling which Zig handles natively: the standard install of Zig comes with a "zig cc" wrapper around clang that allows you to cross compile[2][3] C and zig code for any number of target architectures (it includes C standard library headers and code for them). Zig is the only language I've come across which functions perfectly as a better C. [1]: https://ziglang.org https://ziglang.org [2]: https://actually.fyi/posts/zig-makes-rust-cross-compilation-just-work/ https://actually.fyi/posts/zig-makes-rust-cross-compilation-... [3]: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...