I also have a loosely connected essay in me about Zig, Odin and Jai and why I think Odin is the best take on "A Better C", which basically boils down to it being the only one that takes its own advice and — critically — questions whether a thing should exist at all *before* implementing a solution to it

e.g: Zig's build-systems-are-written-in-Zig vs Odin's why-would-we-have-a-build-system-at-all?