I endorse Go as a substitute for Python. Seriously! It may read like a spiritual successor to C, but in practice, with type inference, GC, and struct/map/slice

I endorse Go as a substitute for Python. Seriously! It may read like a spiritual successor to C, but in practice, with type inference, GC, and struct/map/slice literals, it's very (as the golang people put it) light on the page.