The Odin Programming Language

[DevotionGeo]

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 statement
• using statement
• The implicit context system and memory allocator system
• Explicit procedure overloading

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[OvermindDL1]

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

[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]

I also thought it looked like go

How to choose between go, rust or zig?

[DevotionGeo]

There is another language which is more similar to Go. The V Programming Language.