I just want a safe-ish language that doesn't nerd-snipe 95% of software engineers into creating glorious and incomprehensible syntactic monstrosities that go nu

I just want a safe-ish language that doesn't nerd-snipe 95% of software engineers into creating glorious and incomprehensible syntactic monstrosities that go nuts with allocations and hidden function calls. Really hoping Zig getting some more traction.