That is, it tries to remove or simplify the minutae of programming in high-level assembly (which is what C is often called) without fencing off too much that is useful. At the same time, it adds genuine language support for the sort of things the various C libraries try to add and most modern languages support intrinsically.
Put another way, it's trying to create a much better C by looking at what people like in languages like Python.
C has a nasty reputation of requiring programmers to take care of silly details. Strings are the classic example: they are not first-class objects in C. You have to do all the memory management yourself, every time and everywhere. This detracts significantly from ease of development.
Wade.