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Its main competition to start with:

Then, Modula-3 was the C++ alternative and its semantics are probably still easier than C due to simplicity plus well-specified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

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I like your answer, but I was really referring to widely used languages.

Maybe Fortran, then, given less undefined behavior. It's still widely used in high-performance computing given it's easier to optimize than C and has pre-optimized libraries.

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