You should try Nim, it's Python like but compiled so it's as far as C. These days if I want to script something (and don't need Python specific libraries like pandas) I use Nim.
Go recently got pretty decent generics. I'm with you on the error handling though. At least it's explicit. Go also has a plethora of really useful libraries, and that along with good editor and build tooling is probably the real draw of the language for me.
