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Marketing the Odin programming language is weird
[Originally from a Twitter Thread] Original Twitter Post “Killer Feature” Odin is a weird programming language to advertise/market for. Odin is very pragmatic in terms of its design and overall philosophy. Unlike all popular languages out there, it has no “killer feature”. I’ve tried to design it to solve actual problems with actual solutions. Those languages with a “killer feature” to them do make them “standout” and consequentially more “hypeable”. The problem is that those “killer features” are usually absolute nonsense, very niche, or they rarely have any big benefit.
There isn’t an example of a popular programming language out there which hasn’t got a “killer feature”, even C’s was that in many way it is a “portable assembly” (even if that is not actually true). Or do they just optimize for a mythical “Developer Experience (DX)” which just results in more crap which gets slower, bulkier, and offer less for the actual user? People expect a programming language and compiler to be free; without caring how much time, money, and effort that goes into building a tool.
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