Zig might be a good alternative as it matures. As far as I understand, zig makes a lot of things explicit which are not in C, like explicitly passing the alloc

Zig might be a good alternative as it matures. As far as I understand, zig makes a lot of things explicit which are not in C, like explicitly passing the allocator when it’s needed. This might be even more edifying than C which has a little bit of magic going on.