> I really want a language that is memory and thread safe, but culled, honed and cut down to the absolute minimum language, to reduce the learning curve. The p

> I really want a language that is memory and thread safe, but culled, honed and cut down to the absolute minimum language, to reduce the learning curve. The problem is the syntax around the borrow checker is the learning curve. And if you cut out that, you are basically back to plain-old-C.