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?

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A properly designed systems language would be safer than C without sacrificing performance. Even if it was only a little safer, that would still be an improvement.

>>6
You're sacrificing performance every time you call qsort with your shitty noninlining compiler. C simply isn't expressive enough by itself to allow code that both is efficient and avoids code duplication.
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.