It is kinda interesting that at the same time several projects appeared to catch the "safer" language desire. Both projects have automatic safe MM (GC and auto-free), both trying to fix C.. sounds familiar right? :)

First one is only going to be released in 2025, the second is currently mostly a hobby project of one guy, but in both projects some people are from large corps (Disney, Epic Games).

And they could just try D instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯

TrapC:
https://vimeo.com/1028578347
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/trapc_memory_safe_fork/

Fil-C:
https://www.youtube.com/live/_VF3pISRYRc?t=4862s
https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge

Quote of the day, lol.