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Odin, a Pragmatic C Alternative with a Go Flavour
Odin is a general-purpose systems programming language authored by Bill “gingerBill” Hall. Designed as a modern alternative to C, Odin emphasizes simplicity, performance, and readability without sacrificing control over low-level details.
The design ideology around Odin is to provide some greatly needed quality of life improvements over the lingua-franca of systems languages: C, while still staying as simple as C.” link In practice, this means Zig relies on a lot of metaprogramming to do things like serialization through type inspection, whereas in Odin it’s available at runtime, so the code is magnitudes easier to understand. While it has areas for growth—particularly in documentation and community accessibility—Odin’s pragmatic design and focus on developer experience make it a worthy alternative to C for contemporary systems programming needs.
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