Zig is the one, y'all. I've spent the past couple weeks sort of researching and tinkering with options for writing fast, compact, reliable, software in a pretty high level language, preferably without a lot of bullshit (e.g. C++ is a "high bullshit" language...not a bad language, not a language without its benefits, it can produce fast, compact, software, but using it involves a lot of bullshit).
Zig is the lowest bullshit language I think I've ever seen. Less than C, less than Go, even.