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by Terretta 25 days ago
At the level of this question, with most responses addressing Odin versus Rust or Go as in the question, I'd have been curious for community thoughts adding in Nim and Swift (now that Swift is on Linux and in any IDE that can use SourceKit-LSP).

https://www.swift.org/install/linux/

See:

"A series of small programs/tasks to compare C++, Go, Zig, Odin, D, Janet, Swift, Nim and C# to see which I like the most"

https://github.com/phillvancejr/Cpp-Go-Zig-Odin
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Cyberdog 24 days ago
I used to be a huge fan of Swift but eventually got frustrated that they just don't seem interested in officially supporting anything other than macOS and mainline Linux; any support for BSD or Windows is only through iffy community projects. I can't recommend Swift if you want your project to be broadly multi-platform.
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leecommamichael 22 days ago
Personally, of that sample I prefer Go and Odin. I find compilers to be terribly fun puzzles, and I love to learn languages inside and out. That's great and all, but I also have to get things done, and I find Go and Odin have a certain... rudimentary feeling which keeps me focused. Go less-so than Odin. I've written quite a lot of Swift in my life, and find it to be the absolute worst language for me in terms of this kind of "distracted energy." There are so many ways to abstract things in Swift, the tool bag is just so deep, and I do get a bit frustrated by the sluggishness of the compiler. I had a work project take us 30 minutes for a clean build, and those of us who have used Xcode know that unfortunately a clean build is not as rare as in some other systems. Maybe this has changed. It's been 4 years since I've done serious work with Swift. Glad to see they stopped making so many breaking changes, though.

EDIT: Actually Typescript is more distracting than Swift. I could spend days toying with the type-checker to make the program sturdier against one change or another.

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