orangetuba

I am interested in safe languages, but without the complexity of Rust. I already spent many years working with C++, and I notice similar tendencies with Rust. Are there any up and coming, safe alternatives to C, without, perhaps generics and all that it entails?

I really appreciate the idea of a Rust-like borrow-checker, but I think Rust is too complicated. Wouldn't it be possible for someone to make a smaller language like C, but with a borrow-checker? It seems that most of the aversion to Rust is the sum of its complexity.

I am going crazy with all the electron-based applications that use several gigabytes of memory without doing anything. What are good options and frameworks for making applications that are performant and low on memory usage? C and Gtk? C++ and Qt? I want to make something like Google Maps, but with decent performance.

What are good programming languages with a small surface area? Languages like C and Go? With large languages like C++ and Rust, I get decision paralysis, and I end up spending too much time with language details.

I tried hard to like Go, but as of now, I just don't like it. What languages would you recommend that I check out? I already know Python and C, and I would like to learn something more performant than Python.