Look at my language: https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/. It has plenty of interesting ideas, but is fully human-written (and will remain human-written).
Oh, I love that!
Mandatory initialization, strong typing, context free grammar, lots of good basics. If you get the C++ header converter to work so you can use most C++ libraries I could see this as a great C++ replacement.