c2compiler

Arguably, what you describe, is closer to what C2 was/is[1]. By the way, C2 is still alive, for those that care to look. C3 (link[2]) is a fork of/inspired by C2, which appears to have incorporated a lot of Odin and Jai "flavoring". In the case of both C3 and Odin, it can be argued that part of their popularity is that Jai isn't publicly released. Consequently, they seem to pull in a lot of the crowd, that would be attracted to Jai. Another aspect of this, is the more C3 promotes itself (whether intentional or not), the more likely C2 will get faded out. Many will likely think C3 is the next iteration of C2 or simply know the name more, because pushed on HN and other social media. [1] https://github.com/c2lang/c2compiler [2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c