Cyclone for one, which AT&T created exactly to replace C.

Yeah but is that a practical language people can use instead of C and Rust? I’ve always heard of it only as a research language that inspired rust but nothing else.

	▲	pjmlp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Outside AT&T until they ramped down the project, I guess not, Rust also took its time to actually take off beyond Mozilla, and is around because it was rescued by big tech (Amazon, Google, Microsoft,...) hiring most of the core team after Mozilla's layoffs.