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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
- Built-in types: strings, array, slices, dynamic arrays, maps, 128-bit integers, endian-specific integers
- Multiple return arguments
- Consistent value declaration syntax
- Parametric polymorphism
-
Compile time conditions (
when
statements) and stress where there is not full blown compile time execution defer
statementusing
statement- The implicit
context
system and memory allocator system - Explicit procedure overloading
(Copied from the homepage).
Most Liked

OvermindDL1
Interesting… How does it compare to Zig that seems to have the same goals?
3

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
.
3

kokolegorille
I also thought it looked like go
How to choose between go, rust or zig?
3
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