Odin would very likely be a great choice for the stuff that you're trying to do. It's a very straight forward language and has a "vendor" (https://pkg.odin-lang

Odin would very likely be a great choice for the stuff that you're trying to do. It's a very straight forward language and has a "vendor" (https://pkg.odin-lang.org/vendor/ https://pkg.odin-lang.org/vendor/) part of the libraries shipped with the compiler that has lots of bindings for gamedev-related things, i.e. OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX, glfw, stb libraries, some audio libraries, etc. On top of that it has swizzling in the language, some automatic array programming features and a standard set of modern niceties like good tagged union support, custom allocators that are standardized, and so on. It's a nice language for pretty much any use case when you want good fundamentals and straight forward solutions without much magic but for gamedev I don't think there's a C/C++ alternative that is as well suited as Odin overall. If you want a brief (but enough to get me excited about trying Odin out) overview of the language you can find one here: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/ https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/ P.S. I've written a few posts on HN about what I like about Odin in more detail so I won't reiterate those things exactly here, but one of them is recent so you can find it in my comment history.