Have a look at Nim(https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ ). It doesn't have great IDE support, but VSCode plugin works well enough and the language has a

Have a look at Nim(https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ ). It doesn't have great IDE support, but VSCode plugin works well enough and the language has a lot going for it. Edit: posting this because I'm in the same situation. I like Rust/Nim/Elixir but Go has a great productive ecosystem even though the language is quite "barebones".