alt Hacker NewsSure, but that in the end is what matters with memory safe systems languages, reduction of attack surface and easy to spot when safety is being disabled.
Alternative being Assembly written primitives, like in Smalltalk originally. Blue book description.
There are better alternatives than assembly. The Oberon approach would already benefit if low-level code no longer operates behind the compiler's back and instead supports full type checking. My new Micron language provides this.