i love odin.
- manual memory management
- arena and pool allocators
- go style err!=nill style exception handling
- first class support for soa and vectorized simd, linear algebra and swizzling
- sanely typed and namespaces
- explicit unambigious overloading, subroutine context
- first class support for defer statements
- zero friction C ffi
if you haven't heard of odin, you should definitely consider it.