In my experience, what's actually nice is the correctness. The low-levelness is not helpful for most of the software I write, and imposes a constant burden.

Rust, of course superbly achieves its goals within its niche! But it is a niche, is my meaning here.

What I actually want is code that's correct, but ergonomic to write. So my ideal language (as strange as it sounds) would be Rust with a GC.

I don't want to worry about what string type I'm using. I want it to just work. But I want it to work correctly.

Lisette looks like it's in this exact category! It seems to combine the best aspects of both Rust and Go, which is a very promising endeavour. I'll have to take a proper look :)