DevotionGeo

DevotionGeo

The Odin Programming Language

The Odin programming language is designed with the intent of creating an alternative to C with the following goals:

  • simplicity
  • high performance
  • built for modern systems
  • joy of programming

Example Code

package main

import "core:fmt"

main :: proc() {
	program := "+ + * 😃 - /";
	accumulator := 0;

	for token in program {
		switch token {
		case '+': accumulator += 1;
		case '-': accumulator -= 1;
		case '*': accumulator *= 2;
		case '/': accumulator /= 2;
		case '😃': accumulator *= accumulator;
		case: // Ignore everything else
		}
	}

	fmt.printf("The program \"%s\" calculates the value %d\n",
	           program, accumulator);
}

Language Features

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OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

Interesting… How does it compare to Zig that seems to have the same goals?

DevotionGeo

DevotionGeo

I didn’t use it yet, but the first thing I noticed is syntactical similarity to Go, the short variable declaration operator, defer keyword, absence of parenthesis around conditions in conditionals, even names of the packages and methods like fmt.printf.

kokolegorille

kokolegorille

I also thought it looked like go

How to choose between go, rust or zig? :slight_smile:

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