alt Hacker NewsI am using Odin to write a video game.... why would I want tn HTTPS stack, SQL Drivers, Websockets or any of that? Maybe eventually I might need some websockets if I want multiplayer. But I can also just make bindings to a C library so no real issue there.
Odin is explicitly made for video games.
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gethly • today at 2:39 PM
> Odin is explicitly made for video games.
Ginger Bill vehemently refuses this notion and tries to fight in every podcast, to "sell" Odin as general purpose low level language. But he is failing because of my points and your claim just proves it yet again that Odin has profiled itself as language for games when in reality that was never the intention of Bill. There is nothing wrong with that, it's just the perception among programmers.
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Directly from the FAQ: https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#is-odin-just-a-language-for-...
> Is Odin “just” a language for game development? # > No. It is a common misconception that Odin is “just” for game development (“gamedev”) due to the numerous vendor packages that could be used in the aid of the development of a game. However, gamedev is pretty much the most wide domain possible where you will do virtually every area of programming possible. > > Odin is a general purpose language; is capable of being used in numerous different areas from application development, servers, graphics, games, kernels, CLI/TUIs, etc. > > There are many aspects of Odin which do make working with 2D and 3D related operations (which are common in gamedev) much nicer than other languages, especially Odin’s array programming, swizzling, #soa data types, quaternions and matrices, and so much more niceties which other languages do not offer out-of-the-box.