I've been somewhat successful to use Ada instead. It has a lot of inconveniences of its own, but compared to C++ it's a language where it's hard to get things

I've been somewhat successful to use Ada instead. It has a lot of inconveniences of its own, but compared to C++ it's a language where it's hard to get things to work in any way, but once you get them to work, they are likely to do what you want, whereas in C++ it's easy to get things to compile, but then heaven only knows what that code will do. Also, Ada has a very decent interop with C. To the point that w/o any prior experience, I needed to use some functions from SQLite that weren't already exposed through Ada, and it was a pretty smooth sailing: very little "glue" code, all code that connected C and Ada was written in Ada.