Zig feels too much in flux, has some incredible ideas, but I really don't like it syntactically wise, and I really don't like how the author is so stubbornly in favour of unused-variables-as-errors which I believe it's the worst thing to ever have been invented and drives me up the wall. Documentation was still pretty bad last I checked, and that's the bare minimum before I can seriously adopt a new language.
C3 feels like home for C developers, there is a real market for language evolutions rather than revolutions (imagine Typescript). The issue is that pretty much nobody knows about C3, most posts about it never get any traction on HN, and it's hard to choose a language with no mind share for anything more serious than toys.
Odin is quite nice, has some hype behind it, deservedly. Feels like a nice improvement over C without completely throwing the baby away with the bathwater; perhaps one negative thing might be that it's so opinionated it feels less of a general purpose language than others (with the main dev focused on graphics, there's a lot of syntax sugar for that use case which feels out of place for anyone that is not writing desktop UI or games). Also, while I agree with the author's choice on not rewriting the compiler itself in Odin, as most other languages do, it doesn't strike much confidence that the author would rather develop in C++ than eat his own dog food.
I must admit I don't keep up with alternative languages much any more because I believe the Lindy effect to be a force multiplier, and for serious applications it's better to stick with something that is known to work, despite its shortcomings. You only have a few points you can spend on innovation, and if you're developing a complex application, at the very least you want a rock-solid base to build upon. This is why I'm still sticking with C for very low-level programming.
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Zig feels too much in flux, has some incredible ideas, but I really don't like it syntactically wise, and I really don't like how the author is so stubbornly in favour of unused-variables-as-errors which I believe it's the worst thing to ever have been invented and drives me up the wall. Documentation was still pretty bad last I checked, and that's the bare minimum before I can seriously adopt a new language.
C3 feels like home for C developers, there is a real market for language evolutions rather than revolutions (imagine Typescript). The issue is that pretty much nobody knows about C3, most posts about it never get any traction on HN, and it's hard to choose a language with no mind share for anything more serious than toys.
Odin is quite nice, has some hype behind it, deservedly. Feels like a nice improvement over C without completely throwing the baby away with the bathwater; perhaps one negative thing might be that it's so opinionated it feels less of a general purpose language than others (with the main dev focused on graphics, there's a lot of syntax sugar for that use case which feels out of place for anyone that is not writing desktop UI or games). Also, while I agree with the author's choice on not rewriting the compiler itself in Odin, as most other languages do, it doesn't strike much confidence that the author would rather develop in C++ than eat his own dog food.
I must admit I don't keep up with alternative languages much any more because I believe the Lindy effect to be a force multiplier, and for serious applications it's better to stick with something that is known to work, despite its shortcomings. You only have a few points you can spend on innovation, and if you're developing a complex application, at the very least you want a rock-solid base to build upon. This is why I'm still sticking with C for very low-level programming.
Still, all three languages are worth your time.