There're many languages that can be added in such comparison. Why Scala Native (which looks nice sure) over more prominent C/C++ successors/alternatives such as D, Nim, V, Odin, Hare, etc?
I think if fits well in this comparison, because Scala-native:
- has the ergonomics, abstractions, expressiveness and conveniences of a high-level language with pointer-level semantics if/when needed (essentially covering the abstraction vs. cost spectrum of all those languages)
- can be used with or without GC (same)
- has the libraries and tooling to tackle massively concurrent/parallel workloads with ease (the niche that Go carved for itself)
- offers the same memory safety guarantees as Rust, and possibly more in the future with capture-checking (a more general concept than borrow-checking to guarantee resources scoping at compile-time)
