Ask HN: Is Pascal any good for modern programming?

Hello HN community! I know to program in languages like C, C++, Python, etc. I want to create small but robust programs and I think C gets in the way of that unless I write every line of code like a paranoid. I know Rust offers a lot of safety features but I don't like the ergonomics of it. Python has good ergonomics but is slow as hell. So here is what I am looking for in a programming language I can use for my small and robust programs: - The language should have implementations that are popular and available for almost all popular architectures and operating systems. - The language should have implementations that compile to machine code. - The language should have been around for >= 10 years. - The language should have good ergonomics. It should not make me reinvent the wheel for simple things like file IO, substring search, etc. - The language should not perform outright dangerous things silently. If I try to read beyond the end of an array the program should crash immediately. - The language or its implementations should not have garbage collector. After searching through many available languages I think Pascal might be it but I don't know enough Pascal to make a call. So I am drawing upon the wisdom of HN community to find out if Pascal is a good fit here or if you have other suggestions for me.