Odin

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Odin is a Pascal-inspired, Go-like, LLVM-based, C alternative that comes with unique productivity features.
Please compare Unleashed Pascal with Odin if you are looking for new features for Unleashed Pascal !?

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Here is a summary of Odin's features that attract every programmer who seeks a productive C/C++ alternative:

• Simple syntax with simple design: Odin uses Go-like syntax to offer extreme syntactical simplicity, recommends natural procedural programming, and extends the language carefully to cater to everyone’s needs without hurting core simplicity-first design
• Directives: Almost all languages either drop syntactical features deliberately for simplicity or grow complex implementing them, but Odin takes a different approach — it extends core syntax with special compile-time directives
• Memory handling flexibility: No GC built-in like C, but offers modern productivity helpers like core heap and arena allocation, additional memory allocators, built-in procedures like new_clone(value) and free_all(allocator), and the defer keyword
• Array and mathematical programming: Odin offers built-in support for using arithmetic operators with fixed arrays and native matrix types, targeting computer-graphics-related application development, e.g., games, simulations, and image processing
• Fully featured cross-platform standard library: Odin’s core package offers all primary cross-platform system programming and general-purpose programming features, including pre-developed algorithms, data structures, cross-platform operating system features (e.g., child process API, shared library loaders, etc.), text encoder/decoders like JSON, and more.
• Official vendor bindings: The built-in vendor package implements Odin bindings for popular graphics APIs, including OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D, SDL, GLFW, and more. This attracts game developers who struggle with external or from-scratch developer-written bindings of other C/C++ alternatives
• Modern programming features: Offers modern features that Rust, Go, and C++ offer, such as array slicing, for ranges, type inference, labelled control statements, multiple return values, raw string literals, struct embedding, and more
• Explicit function overloading: Offers explicit function overloading syntax, unlike other programming languages, to improve code readability and maintenance, especially with nested functions
• Built-in test runner and syntax: No need to seek external testing packages — Odin comes with a productive testing syntax, and the Odin CLI runs your tests

Odin goes the extra mile compared to other C/C++ alternatives by creating a simple but extendable language with features that modern systems and game programmers seek.

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Odin first impressions

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Odin creator Ginger Bill on his programming language and state of software!

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Odin 1.0 Announcement

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It’s amazing what a developer can achieve if they have the perseverance.
The world needs heroes like that!

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Who was Odin? How to create a god

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Hrafnsmál - The Words of the Raven

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How Pascal secretly shaped modern programming