You might want to also pay attention to Jai (or whatever Jonathan Blow ends up naming it)
Like the author of Odin, Blow has significant experience writing software in a specific domain (video games), has strong opinions about what's wrong with existing languages, and decided he could do better.
You can't actually use Jai yourself yet, it is as yet a closed beta (though you might know somebody who can get you in), but you can already get a flavour of it and I think it's probably in the sphere of things you'd be interested in judging from your comment.
Personally I think we need to stop treating safety as optional, as a C programmer for about 30 years, about 15-20 years of that for pay, I found Rust very pleasant and would now always choose it over C or these C replacements - although currently I get paid to write Python and C# in my day job.
But I'm clearly in the minority, for now at least, so I expect at least one of these C replacements like Odin or Zig to get significant adoption. Probably pays to know several of them, as it's far from clear which will succeed and I doubt there's room for all of them over the long term.
But, what are people going to do with Jai, that they can't already do with Odin? As Odin was strongly influenced by Jai, it could be argued that most of whatever was innovative, is already incorporated in Odin and available today. Even more, since Odin is publicly available, its arguably being "battle tested" to a higher degree to make it a more polished product.
From my understanding, Jai is still years away from a general public release.
Like the author of Odin, Blow has significant experience writing software in a specific domain (video games), has strong opinions about what's wrong with existing languages, and decided he could do better.
You can't actually use Jai yourself yet, it is as yet a closed beta (though you might know somebody who can get you in), but you can already get a flavour of it and I think it's probably in the sphere of things you'd be interested in judging from your comment.
Personally I think we need to stop treating safety as optional, as a C programmer for about 30 years, about 15-20 years of that for pay, I found Rust very pleasant and would now always choose it over C or these C replacements - although currently I get paid to write Python and C# in my day job.
But I'm clearly in the minority, for now at least, so I expect at least one of these C replacements like Odin or Zig to get significant adoption. Probably pays to know several of them, as it's far from clear which will succeed and I doubt there's room for all of them over the long term.