To me the case against a C alternative is simple. C is like Math. It is the fundamental high level language. There can be no alternative..

Rust made the mistake of thinking it can be low level AND safe. It tried to have the cake and eat it too. That will be its downfall.

C isn't an iota more fundamental than say Modula-2. It's just more popular. And C is very bad at being a low level language. There are plenty of things that you can express in assembly that you just can't do in C. And then the platform ABI won't support it, since C can't support it, and it hampers other languages that don't have C's limitations.

There's plenty of alternatives out there, the downfall you see is imaginary.

Nice ragebait tentative though.