There is another attempt at it. That language has been in development for a few years and is almost ready. Rust combines the best features of C and functional programming and through a very clever pointer system manages to eliminate race conditions, null pointers and dangling pointers at compile time. It has a powerful type system and smart type inference. It's possible to have some memory be garbage collected, but by default it isn't so it can be used for tasks that prohibit garbage collection. The compiler ensures that freed memory will never be accessed. It's built for modern parallel hardware and offers tons of concurrency features, like lightweight tasks, actors, async, etc. Its structs are compatible with C and Rust can integrate seamlessly with C code and librairies. It compiles to native using LLVM. It's backed by a major non-profit, Mozilla. It's a fantastic project and it seems to have all the right cards to be the perfect alternative to C++.

Check it out. My only disappointment (and the reason why I'm not using it seriously at the moment) is that because the language is still in development, it changes extremely fast and 80% of the documentation online is wrong and won't compile. Even the official documentation contains a lot of outdated syntax. Hopefully that will change once the language reaches version 1.0, in the next 3-6 months.