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Copying what I wrote in another comment:
What I would like to see is something that shares these advantages with Go:
...but I don't like the actual language design of Go, and I think it's possible to design a language that's more Rusty but still simpler than actual Rust.
For instance, error handling in Rust is both more ergonomic and more rigorous than in Go. That's huge! A language like Go but with sum types,
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, and the question-mark operator would be leaps and bounds nicer than Go itself.To be clear, I don't imagine that a "smaller Rust" would replace Rust. But I also don't think we've reached optimal language design when the language I'd pick to write an OS is also the language I'd pick to write a small CLI app.
Learning a programming language is not hard. there are thousands of choices. Before you ask for another one, first please check that there isn't already one that meets your needs. Fragmentation of languages is not useful in general. It is rare to have an idea that hasn't been tried before, so find someone who already has done that idea.
... I am currently asking if there is a language that fits the description. And I'm clearly not the only one interested in such a language.
I personally have not found Rust onerous to learn, especially by comparison to C++. But a lot of people do find the learning curve steep.