I'm a fan of doing the first pass for most things in a scripted language. I mean, it may not be the least bytes or fastest code, but the time to done seems to be a lot better, and usually performs well enough a second pass isn't needed.

I really appreciate what I've seen of both Rust and Go myself. They both feel more approachable than the C/C++ legacies imho. Though I haven't gone much farther than general tutorials with either.