I would suggest you to checkout Odin[0]. It's very similar to Zig but has much better ergonomics and probably the closest to a 'Better C' replacement in my expe

I would suggest you to checkout Odin[0]. It's very similar to Zig but has much better ergonomics and probably the closest to a 'Better C' replacement in my experience. It does array bounds checking by default (which you can turn off if you choose to) [0] - https://odin-lang.org https://odin-lang.org