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Go removes so much of the expressive power that writing it after Python is a bit of a pain.

OTOH I realize that many people don't use that expressive power and are happy with copy-pasting stuff.

I’m waiting for generics to land before I return to Go.

One thing I immediately miss from Python after using Go is building a dict (e.g. for writing JSON values). I had to type map[string]interface{} so many times =P

Did you have a look at nim?

Maybe I should try it. It seems to be mentioned a lot here. Any recommended book?

https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action - from one of the core developers.

I fail to see how a bare bones language is a replacement for a language with Lisp/Smalltalk like expressive power.

The only thing missing is having more love for JIT compilers among the Python community.