LÖVE

C++ may not be the worst programming language ever created, but without a doubt it's the worst ever to be taken seriously.

— Mason Wheeler

Yes, it's all true. But, C++ is not a language for beginners or average dudes, it's more like a heavy duty tool to those who needs heavy duty power (and have appropriate skill to handle it). Verbosity is actually solved as simple as by using libraries (duh), but without libs you get to write this much with just any language. As for winsetup, simply use RAD. I assume you do that with C#.

I use VisualStudio, so I have the comfort of Intellisense that actually works, and the designer, along with the automatic code generation it does, which speeds things along quite a bit (and pampers me).

I've mainly worked with low level languages so I'm quite used to memory management, which is why I asked the question. Don't need to spark a debate on languages lol.

Also, Sublime is absolutely amazing for LUA.