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TL;DR: I believe Odin's inline assembly is currently the best out of any language.The most important aspects are of this article listed below. I am not aware of any other assembly (GCC/Clang/Rust/Go...) that would combine all of these aspects:Inline assem

TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible-striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't w

Karl Zylinski's Tom's Namespaces: An Odin Fanfic is an excellent exploration of the namespacing problem in imperative programming languages such as Odin I highly recommend reading that article before reading this one!. After sharing it on many comment for

As with many discussions in the programming space, there are "wars" between different ways of doing things. These are typically about minor aesthetic preferences, such as:Tabs vs Spaces for indentation vs vs for naming conventions vs for strings (if the l

I have seen a common remark from people who are not the biggest fans of Odin and it is usually the remark that Odin is "full of sugar" which only works for the "blessed types" and it cannot be replaced or implemented for user-level types. Firstly, I don't

Odin's declaration syntax becomes second nature to everyone who uses the language but I do sometimes get asked "Why are there two ways to do type conversions?" Enough that I had to make an FAQ entry..The reason that there are two ways to do type conversio

Yes.But not necessarily in the ways you might think n.b. This article could have been a lot longer than it currently is..Concrete and Abstract SyntaxesIn the previous article, Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?, I talked about how many people will n

I am still perplexed by how people judge a language purely by its declaration syntax, and will decide whether to use the language purely based on whether they like that aspect or not I am specifically talking about declaration syntax here and not other as