Sometimes I think that if we are willing to burn tokens and rely on compilers in a loop we should be using languages that can catch as many errors as possible at compile time.

Like Ada or Ocaml or Haskell or something.

Or even require like MC / DC testing or MISRA C verification.

Or even some of the languages that apply Hoare checks, like Ada SPARK or FRAMA-C or VALE or whatever.

I don't have the budget to test how that would work but it seems interesting.