It's also likely in your favorite distro's repo.
Among Pascal fans, Free Pascal is generally considered "the way" because it's closest to Turbo Pascal/Delphi.
Lazarus is the open Delphi libraries implementation that uses it.
That would look a lot like the Zig language, it's delightful to use.
What Rust is to C++, Zig is to C.
No, they don't relate at all in the same way. (And that's not to mention the lack of consensus about what Rust is to C++...)
That being said - Zig is quite the interesting language.
C has much lower language complexity but also requires longer onboarding times for engineers new to a project, at the cost of some sharp footguns that an experienced practitioner can avoid. Zig relative to Rust falls closer to this than a zero-cost abstraction based high-complexity language.
Obviously the devil is in the details and Zig and C are very different languages, but I think the analogy stands well.
> Skepticism is not pessimism, however. Although we see no startling breakthroughs, and indeed, believe such to be inconsistent with the nature of software, many encouraging innovations are under way. A disciplined, consistent effort to develop, propagate, and exploit them should indeed yield an order-of-magnitude improvement. There is no royal road, but there is a road.
Stop using the quote as an excuse to dismiss tech. Exploit tech instead.