I'm a fan of C3, I like that it's not trying to be _too_ far removed, but adds enough to rid you some of the tedious chores of C. Dev and their community is also really nice.
I remember being turned off from it for the same reasons, in particular there were some fairly harsh comments directed to V's developer which felt a bit dog piley to me. Drama's long dead now.. It is a great language though. Closest to the language that would kill C for me so far, but not quite =D