I think Odin is the best language in this niche so far. And although I prefer it slightly to Zig, I expect Zig to eat Odin's lunch.
Odin seems to have procrastinated the important things that cause a language to really take off, in favor more trivial features. At this point I think Odin has crossed into the territory of being wrong in the direction of too many features rather than too few. While having not delivered important tools that would cause the language to accrete an ecosystem.
A must-have for wide adoption is a package/dependency manager. As I've said before: Just clone what Go has. Just take it, you need it to be popular, and you probably aren't going to do better. `import "github.com/whatever"`.
I believe Zig has already started on a package manager, while the sentiment in the Odin community is that the unnecessary concept of "collections" somehow solves the dependency problem.
Odin seems to have procrastinated the important things that cause a language to really take off, in favor more trivial features. At this point I think Odin has crossed into the territory of being wrong in the direction of too many features rather than too few. While having not delivered important tools that would cause the language to accrete an ecosystem.
A must-have for wide adoption is a package/dependency manager. As I've said before: Just clone what Go has. Just take it, you need it to be popular, and you probably aren't going to do better. `import "github.com/whatever"`.
I believe Zig has already started on a package manager, while the sentiment in the Odin community is that the unnecessary concept of "collections" somehow solves the dependency problem.