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[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 21:41:24 UTC, Mike wrote:
> * "Minimal Runtime" is the building block of systems 
> programming.
>  If this is not a core feature of a language, it will never 
> compete with C.  Systems programmers in my field need to 
> incrementally opt-in to features in a pay-as-you-go fashion to 
> make precise tradeoffs for their unique requirements and 
> hardware platforms.  Rust is the only modern language that I'm 
> aware of that's getting this right.

Whiley is in early stages, but I believe they have optional 
Rust-like memory management implemented (proof-of-concept?) to 
enable embedded programming situations.

http://whiley.org/2016/05/28/reference-lifetimes-in-whiley/

It isn't a production ready language, but well worth following.