alt Hacker NewsOdin 1.0 Announcement
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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).
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.
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...
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.