By the 90s/early 2000s C/C++ were the only widely used languages that met my criteria. Rust is the first "modern" language to meet that criteria while simultane

By the 90s/early 2000s C/C++ were the only widely used languages that met my criteria. Rust is the first "modern" language to meet that criteria while simultaneously offering memory safety. If you could afford garbage collection you had plenty of options.