I lost interest in keeping up with C++'s advances more than a decade ago. The problem is that I want a language where things are safe by default. Many of the

I lost interest in keeping up with C++'s advances more than a decade ago. The problem is that I want a language where things are safe by default. Many of the newer stuff added in C++ makes things safe, perhaps even to the level of Rust's guarantees -- but that's only if you use only these new things, and never -- even by accident -- use any of the older patterns. I'd rather just learn a language without all that baggage.