It's amazing and surreal to see this. The very first BOOK on Odin is available NOW!!!. @karl_zylinski has done an excellent job on the book and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn and understand the Odin programming language.

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RT @wookash_podcast: The legendary debate on C with @ryanjfleury and @TheGingerBill!. This was so much fun! There is lots to take away from….

RT @marianpekar: Odin is the C alternative for the Joy of Programming, says @odinlang website. I made two essentially the same implementati….

I swear a lot of the time when I am arguing with people on the internet, it is with people who cannot understand another person's point of view, regardless of what is being discussed—a complete lack of theory of mind. The problem is it's not always possible to know right away.

Code indentation that is anything but 2, 3, 4, or 8 characters wide, is objectively a bad style from a pure aesthetics standpoint. P.S. This has nothing to with tabs vs spaces (the dumbest argument people get into).

Absolutely great introduction to Statistical Mechanics!.

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RT @ariaghora: Progress: upscaled embedding layer is done. One more part left (hypernetworks MLP), and we're good to go. Value distr. diff….

Tepid Take: In statically typed compiled languages, duck typing through standalone overloaded procedures is usually a bad idea.

RT @ryanjfleury: “What’s this?”. “Your program, sir.”. “No that can’t be right, I haven’t run the installer and updater, or signed into my….

RT @JangaFX: #Illugen experiments by developer @L_Perlind

RT @Wassimulator: I’m looking for a new job (remote, or local in Munich). Ideally full-time; employment or contracting. Experience: low-lev….

The best text editor is. whatever you're most competent in.

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New Odin FAQ: "But really, why does Odin not have any methods?".

RT @wookash_podcast: „Hey @ryanjfleury, what would you remove from C?”. This was wild! It’s a snippet from our discussion C language with @….

RT @cmuratori: In case people didn't know, this was a joke @teej_dv told on The Standup which @TheGingerBill was repeating. I don't use pri….

Once the core semantics are there, the syntax will kind of come for free. Sometimes it is a syntax problem, and when it is, you should be looking for coherence and consistency with the rest of the language, rather than some new "sugar" to add to the mix.

That's one thing I have spent a heck of a lot of time in Odin with, to make Odin "feel" good to use, intuitive, and simply joyful. Most people who attempt language design will naïvely focus on improving the syntax of a language, when you need the core semantics to be good.

Ergonomics in a programming language is very important for productivity & "flow state", and should be noted that this isn't the same as giving the programmer loads of "syntactic sugar". Ergonomics arises from the semantics of the language; with syntax as its designed consequence.