Modern systems language?

(Spoiler: There isn't one)

C and Sepples are more trouble than they're worth. Pascal is basically a better-and-yet-somehow-worse version of C. Ada is basically a better-and-yet-many-times-more-verbose version of C++.

I don't think I need to say what C++ is.

Go will never be good. Python will never be good.

Is there a language that's good that I don't know about?

>>1
Systems programming is done in C. End of story. You can't sacrifice performance on a systems level.

>>8
If performance really was all that, someone would have made a language with stronger guarantees for an optimizing compiler, more explicit vectorization forms, and better support for metaprogramming and compile-time calculations.
C has all of these. Stop masturbating to Haskell and learn to use the const and volatile keywords-if you don't know how to use those, you shouldn't be operating a computer! Also, learn to use CUDA and other industrial-strength vector and data processing libraries, all of which are written in C.

Oh, and anyone who thinks the C preprocessor should behave like a module system, or like Lisp, or like that weeaboo Ruby shit, doesn't understand the word "preprocessor", and doesn't know how to do real metaprogramming like a man with actual balls. So just stop being a bitch about it.