Suggest an interesting language for me to try out, that I can use for 2D Games. Something that I might not have considered, or is not particularly well known.

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  • Odin

    Odin Programming Language

  • Odin might be worth considering. It's a high-performance language with a relatively small syntax and feature set, and developed with game/graphics development in mind, though it is general purpose. Bindings for all the main graphics APIs are available, making it easy to get started on game development.

  • Nim

    Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  • Have you looked at FreePascal, Nim or Haxe?

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  • haxe

    Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit

  • Have you looked at FreePascal, Nim or Haxe?

  • Carp

    A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

  • Beef

    Beef Programming Language (by beefytech)

  • JaiPrimer

    A description of Jonathan Blow's programming language, Jai

  • There has been a lot of hype about the Jai programming language (for game development), but another language that has been heavily influenced by it and has a lot of similar syntax and concepts is Odin. Here is a blow by blow comparison, Jai vs Odin.

  • v-mode

    🌻 An Emacs major mode for the V programming language.

  • A language to possibly look at is Vlang. It is presently using a GC, but is a compiled language. It is anticipated that it will provide multiple methods of memory management, somewhat like D and Nim; GC, Autofree, and manual. Thus giving users a lot of flexibility and options.

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