Anyone have a good comparison of Odin vs C/C++/Rust/Zig/Hare/etc? I'm particularly interested in how simple it is to implement a compiler in the given language.
Don't have a comparison, but I've written toy languages in a few of them.
I only really feel confident to talk about Rust, Rust stands out when it comes to parsing (functional bros unite), but does suffer when interpreting because of unsafe memory access - although for a compiler that shouldn't be an issue.
Odin is great, but I feel like it doesn't have enough syntax sugar to make languages easy to work on - that being said you can achieve most of what you want in a mostly comparable way if you're willing to write more ugly code. In this way it's very similar to C.
Odin is more similar to Zig or C, very similar to Zig I think, but less boiler plate and more similar to Go syntactically. I have also found Odin to be a bit more friendly than Zig to get compiling and running, less required safety. There is far fewer features so I wouldn't really compare it to C++ or Rust. I am not familiar with Hare.