> is there a language these days that nicely interfaces with c i.e able to use all c libraries through ffi > the language being small enough that all basics ca

> is there a language these days that nicely interfaces with c i.e able to use all c libraries through ffi > the language being small enough that all basics can be grasped in a day. That would be Zig. You can directly import C headers and compile C code with the Zig compiler and also cross-compile C code without requiring a separate compiler toolchain. Currently it's also possible to compile C++ and ObjC (but not import C++ or ObjC headers), but that functionality will probably be delegated to a separate Clang toolchain in the future. > the language being complete that it will remain the same in 10 years. ...that will take a while (also depending on whether you consider the stdlib part of the language or not). > while at the same time being memory safe. ...that wouldn't be Zig then ;) (TBF, Zig is much stricter than C or C++, which helps to avoid some typical memory corruption problems in C or C++, but it's by far not as watertight as Rust when it comes to static memory safety - Zig does have a couple of runtime checks though, like array bounds checks - dangling pointers are still a problem though and are only caught at runtime via a special allocator.