I'm not the OP, but could try to venture an answer as someone who's used some of those languages. D is nice. I could see myself picking it instead of go. It's

I'm not the OP, but could try to venture an answer as someone who's used some of those languages. D is nice. I could see myself picking it instead of go. It's much more expressive than go and it's mature enough. Cross compilation story isn't as great though. Haven't tried asBetterC. I was under the impression this corner of D isn't as mature as D proper. Java, IMHO, has limited uses, in the sense that making distributable binaries for client side usage (e.g. CLIs) is quite a hassle, and the need for a JRE makes it quite a bit bulkier than a C or go thing. I'm partial to Nim and Crystal (and V). They aren't as appealing to me personally because they feel complex compared to C and go (and zig). If the appeal of these languages is "a better golang", I think D has beat them to the punch. Also, again, cross compilation tends to be a bit of a deal breaker for me. Another language that seem interesting in this space is Odin, but I could not for the life of me find stdlib docs for it. Another seemingly interesting language is Beef, which has a sort of C# feel (a good thing in my books), but unfortunately I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet. Cosmopolitan is cool, but is just C, and younger than even zig.