> To me it seems like the goal was to be a C++ alternative, not C. That's probably the reason. > I think somewhere inside Rust there is a hidden simpler langu

> To me it seems like the goal was to be a C++ alternative, not C. That's probably the reason. > I think somewhere inside Rust there is a hidden simpler language, with only a tiny subset of its features, but which still has lifetimes That's exactly the language I would like to upgrade to from C.