Zig and slowly but surely Odin is gaining some visibility, but what about the other contenders?

C3

Unlike all other contenders, C3 sets out to be an “evolution” of C. The site highlights “Full C ABI compatibility”, “Module system” and “Operator Overloading” as its major changes, but announces other improvements to the C experience as well.

V

A controversial language that initially skyrocketed in interest but has been source of much controversy. Despite this it has built a solid community of contributors. Perhaps the language with the most high-level looking syntax.

Hare

Designed by well known Open Source profile Drew DeVault it aims to be a simple language that will last the next 100 years. Strongly inspired by C’s stability and longevity. DeVault publicly stated that non-free platforms (presumably MacOS, Windows and similar) would never be supported – which perhaps puts limits to its usefulness.

Could any of these be a better alternative than Odin and Zig? I’ll try to answer that in the upcoming blog posts.