Rust

The Rust Programming Language is becoming increasingly popular, mostly because it is not only fast like C/C++ but syntactically similar, in addition, and importantly it is much better at "safe" memory management. It started out as a personal project by Mozilla staff and then Mozilla adopted it and indeed now use it in Firefox. In 2021 The Rust Foundation was created by AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla and the language is growing.

If you want to start using Rust on Windows, then Developing with Rust on Windows | Microsoft Docs is clearly a great place to start, as is The Rust Programming Language, which is the "official" book. There is an improved version of the official book at Experiment Introduction - The Rust Programming Language. Following on from that Why Rust's learning curve seems harsh, and ideas to reduce it | nicole@web might help.

If you prefer to learn by example then Introduction - Rust By Example is a good place to start, as is Introduction - Rust By Example