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There are options available, namely Basic, Pascal, Ada, Java, Oberon compilers all the way down to microcontrolers (PIC and Cortex classes).

The main problem is that C and C++ won the political war and many devs don't even bother to look elsewhere.

Actually even C++, in spite of its safety improvements over C, has issues to cater to embedded devs.

Thankfully the IoT of shame is already making people aware that another path has to be taken.