I was going to say +1 with golang, and you said it. So just emphasizing that many people prefer code clarity over cool things that make code unreadable (templates...)
Interestingly, I just found Linus' stance on Golang :) https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?curpostid=104302&thread...
Re:Writing a Simple Linux Kernel Module
by smhenderson on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:58PM
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From that post...
But introducing a new language? It's hard. Give it a couple of decades, and see where it is then.
gstreamer, gtk, etc, are really easy to work with and browse the source.
This is why I love golang as well.
Side note, it is funny how much gstreamer and glib try to add c++ "ish" features to c.