SoA is nothing new. Not sure why it needs to be even discussed...

Anyway, here's few videos of interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwkuAqObplU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IroPQ150F6c

Odin also supports SoA natively https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#soa-data-types