[Royi]

Another esoteric choice would be the Odin Programming Language [0]. While being very simple it is modern and effective with some real projects built using it.

Performance wise it is at the very top with other low level languages.

[0]: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin

[leakbang]

This seems to be very interesting. I will take an in depth look at it. Thank you for recommending this!