I get your point, and I'm sympathetic because I had similar thoughts. But building a successful language and ecosystem takes a combination of visionary initiat

I get your point, and I'm sympathetic because I had similar thoughts. But building a successful language and ecosystem takes a combination of visionary initiators, dedicated contributors, money, a significant value add, luck , and lots of time. Rust has warts that could be done better by a newer language. There are some interesting experiments, but I don't know of any language that would fit the bill right now. And if that language emerges it will need many years and probably a corporate backer to reach the level of maturity required for critical workloads like the kernel. The world shouldn't be limited to C for another 10 years.