To be honest, I never heard of it, and it is interesting, but the language isn’t the only factor, it’s the ecosystem as well. It says it’s an alternative to C, so I will just assume it can consume C libraries. But that still leaves you with using C libraries, which is not a great position to be in if you are looking to not use C.

If you are looking for something that is actually in use, but not rust, look into Zig. Still would need to use a lot of C libraries, but it at least looks like it has momentum. Not to mention they seek to completely replace libc, which would actually be useful and an achievement, since that is the biggest problem C actually has.

I am a rust fan myself, but if you are new to programming it’s not a great place to start due to its’ learning cliff.

TLDR; I chose Rust. Thanks.

Hello everyone. I just wanted to update everyone on the result of my deliberating on Odin, Zig and Rust.

After a long time thinking it over. It has become clear that to me in personal opinion that Rust will be the best choice.

Both in terms of the compiler keeping me a solo dev producing correct code. Without the requirement for a Quality Assurance team. And also i know it really well and languages such as Odin and Zig are fantastic and I am advising my son to learn game-dev with Odin.

However, ultimately for producing quality reliable machine code. I feel that Rust is a better choice than Odin or Zig.

Thanks to everyone who commented and helped me find the decision i was looking for <3