I used to have the same wish as you but then I just decided to pick up Haskell. Haskell's hard part really is the type system. It's also what ultimately enables you to write very high abstraction level type safe code that does exactly what it's expected to do.

Btw you may want to keep an eye on this: https://wende.github.io/elchemy/

Honestly, I wish this would get more traction, it seems like an awesome intersection between type safety and practicality.