Comment by apitman

I wrote a simple benchmark comparing my custom dynamic array implementation in Dlang with dynamic arrays in other languages. The test appends and then removes 100,000,000 integers on a Ryzen 3 2200G with 16 GB RAM. This is just a rough cross-language benchmark and not something serious:

Appending and removing 100000000 items... Testing: ./app_d real 0.16 user 0.03 sys 0.12 Testing: ./app_zig real 0.18 user 0.05 sys 0.13 Testing: ./app_odin real 0.27 user 0.10 sys 0.16

Code and benchmark files are here: https://github.com/Kapendev/joka/tree/main/benchmarks/array_...

Odin is more similar to Zig or C, very similar to Zig I think, but less boiler plate and more similar to Go syntactically. I have also found Odin to be a bit more friendly than Zig to get compiling and running, less required safety. There is far fewer features so I wouldn't really compare it to C++ or Rust. I am not familiar with Hare.

Don't have a comparison, but I've written toy languages in a few of them.

I only really feel confident to talk about Rust, Rust stands out when it comes to parsing (functional bros unite), but does suffer when interpreting because of unsafe memory access - although for a compiler that shouldn't be an issue.

Odin is great, but I feel like it doesn't have enough syntax sugar to make languages easy to work on - that being said you can achieve most of what you want in a mostly comparable way if you're willing to write more ugly code. In this way it's very similar to C.