If you like to program in C++ and Python, the Nim language might appeal to you: C++-like features (generic types, operator overloading, function overloading, inline functions, optional O-O, optional data hiding, C pointers, bitwise-compatibility with C, your choice of manual memory management or GC) and C++-like run-time speed, combined with Python-like syntax and compile-time Lisp-like macros.
I spent most of a decade mastering pre-11 C++, learning to apply the recommended tricks & idioms (like the copy-swap idiom for strong exception safety guarantees), learning to sidestep the gotchas. Meyers books, Sutter books, GotW, "Modern C++", etc. Then, when C++11 came out, the language became even more complicated, not less. That was a breaking point for me.
As a long-time programmer (and fan) of both C++ and Python, Nim offers the best balance that I've yet found between C++'s ethos of thoughtful, precise control and Python's user-friendliness.
(And if you ever happen to need seamless Nim-Python compatibility, including native Nim support for Numpy arrays with C++-style iterators, my Pymod project may be of assistance: https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod )
I spent most of a decade mastering pre-11 C++, learning to apply the recommended tricks & idioms (like the copy-swap idiom for strong exception safety guarantees), learning to sidestep the gotchas. Meyers books, Sutter books, GotW, "Modern C++", etc. Then, when C++11 came out, the language became even more complicated, not less. That was a breaking point for me.
As a long-time programmer (and fan) of both C++ and Python, Nim offers the best balance that I've yet found between C++'s ethos of thoughtful, precise control and Python's user-friendliness.
(And if you ever happen to need seamless Nim-Python compatibility, including native Nim support for Numpy arrays with C++-style iterators, my Pymod project may be of assistance: https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod )