No flame-bait here, but if you are seriously looking for that, how about Ada?<p>Realistically, I don&#x27;t see C++ going away for a looong time (if ever), simply because of the huge amounts of code written in it. But if one were looking for an alternative that matches C++ both in performance and control over memory layout, Ada is where I would start. It has generics, you can do OOP, it avoids many of the syntactic pitfalls of C++... As a bonus, the language standard and the rationale are available for free.