Odin 1.0 Announcement

leecommamichael

I've been using and loving Odin for probably around 5 years now, with this past couple years being more seriously invested in it. After tens of thousands of lines of code I'm still very happy. If you like C, but feel it's missing a few things, I highly recommend giving Odin a shot. Among the new litter of "better C" languages, Odin is easily the lowest-friction. It makes for a very nice experience. Congratulations, gingerBill.

pjmlp

I kind of like Odin, with its Pascal/Modula-2 influences, even if the community is a bit hardcore on some of their ideas. Love the books in the background, and the whole video. It is also nice that Odin takes the batteries included approach. How well it would fair in the mainstream remains to be seen.

d3Xt3r

Not to be confused with Samsung Odin[1], or ODIN (Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell)[2], or Odin for OS/2 Warp[3]... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin_(firmware_flashing_softwa... [2] https://odin-win.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://odin.netlabs.org/

sirwhinesalot

Clickbait video title, the first major release is going to be 2027 (date based versioning) (j/k). Odin is a pretty neat language, I should play more with it. There's nothing outright wrong with it I can think of. Some things I would have done slightly different but they're all nitpicks (mainly having the context be a thread local so #contextless wouldn't be necessary).

bmacho

Bad video, I noped out after 2 mins, it is annoying and has a very low information density. Anyone uses a yt video -> information service that is fast, free, reliable etc?

otekengineering

a random video that some ginger dude put up on youtube doesn't seem like a reliable source. any info on this from a reputable institution? shame that HN can't meet the moderation quality bar set by wikipedia

luxorious

There's something seriously off about this ginger bill guy. In addition to copying most of Odin from Jai, Bill copied Jon Blows announcement to his announcement as well as the fake surprised "oh I didn't see you there" opening for the real announcement. He's also planning to release the language the exact same time as Jai, and even said "after ten years of hard work its finally here." Any one of those things you could ignore, but all of them together and its starting to be weird.