I like how dotnet has acknowledged this and provided a whole lot of machinery recently for things like value types on the stack and Span<T> to reduce array copying.
I would have liked that both had acknowledged this to the point of languages like Oberon (all variants predate them), Eiffel, Modula-3, CLU, Cedar,...
While they were used as inspiration on their design, the AOT approach, with automatic memory management, and programming language features for low level coding really took a while to get back from them, even the NGEN/unsafe from C# v 1.0, while welcomed wasn't that great.
I always think that in an alternate reality, had them been had those features already on version 1.0, C and C++ would have lost even more mindshare at the turn of the century, and something like C++11 would not have been as impactful.
