There have been a lot of recent development around a "simpler c++". I think google carbon ( https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang https://github.com/ca

There have been a lot of recent development around a "simpler c++". I think google carbon ( https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang) and hurb sutter (https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront) are probably the most advanced "proposal". Both languages are highly experimental and really far away from being production ready if ever. If you want/need something today, Dlang is pretty good. There are also a lot of other languages such Rust/Zig etc... which "somewhat" fit in the same niche as C++ but tend to have very different programming philosophy. Edit : Can't believe i left out Dlang, the OG better/simpler c++