There are MANY safer-than-C alternative languages compiled to efficient native code. I don't vibe code, but vibe coding seems popular with Nim, for example. I'm sure it's a very long list. "Safer-than-C" has been a slogan for PLangs for the entire history of modern computing. { Before people groan about "but, but mem.mgmt", that is often negligible overhead in context (depending on context and overhead). When it is not negligible, the same problems in Rust will usually have "allocations optimization" fiddling and such, so you don't really avoid "fighting memory". Ada people often just avoid dynamic allocation entirely. Java people will spot-optimize certain things. Ocaml, etc., etc. AMM is not even a property of a PLang as much as a runtime since even spartan C has -lgc with Boehm. }