D is a mostly drop-in replacement (type renaming and such needed though), and it doesn't have that issue. D even has a mode called BetterC, where the D standard library and the garbage collector is left out.

[–] fermuch@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What about Zig?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy, Zig is just uglier C++ with memory safety, and it still has those awful header files...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

IIRC it's garbage collected, so really it's just a version of Java.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It does not use a GC

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apparently, I do not RC. I might have been thinking of Nim. A quick search indicates it's not memory-safe, though. It has a few helpful features to keep errors under control, but that's it.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I was planning to check it out, but don't have any experience yet. I thought it is more of a replacement than drop-in replacement, I may have been wrong