Understanding the Odin programming language

pseudony

Having fun with this. Never bought into rust (have studied, have a (mostly AI-generated app in rust). Wrote some Zig but Odin is even less overhead for me. I first loved Zigs built-in build system but having tried to wrap/use C libraries from both, I must say I prefer Odin. Wrapping some sqlite 3 API’s for my first little Odin program - just because I need so little of the API that it seems easier this way - and speaking to C from Odin is a pleasure. That is, imho, where Rust fails the most - the second part is the C++’ish approach to memory management (RAII) - that’s not how systems programming or games (I’m told) tend to work. To each their own. I had some fun with Rust too, but for me, Odin seems the most appealing :)

Razengan

This was a pretty funny video for a language launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLPAqXi9In0

andyfilms1

I've been using Odin for about 6 months now, and to be honest, it's hard to find fault with it. I've used it for STM32 microcontroller firmware, web and desktop applications, and all are performant and compile quickly. My one issue is (and I'm fully aware it will never happen) I do wish there was some sort of first-class solution to inheritance. I've grown to love procedural programming, but some problems really are just better solved with a more OOP approach. Just because classes exist does not mean they need to be used. But as far as a language to "get stuff done" with as few tradeoffs as possible, Odin is about as good as I can imagine a language being.

datakan

I wonder when we'll see new languages created specifically with LLM's in mind.

gcanyon

I wonder if this will help them get a wikipedia page. (not sure whether this comment is a joke or serious...)

ant6n

Kinda wanna know why I should learn this language. Unfortunately there’s no wiki entry (deleted with some controversy abut notability), so it’s hard to get the gist of it.

WalterBright

Oooodiiinn! https://youtu.be/ZqJHqXERslM?t=59