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gingerBill

3 years

We are proud announce the brand new documentation site for all the official library collections (`core` and `vendor`): .

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"Hot" take: Most people who default to regex for a lot of things do not know how to do basic tokenization, let alone general parsing. A basic tokenizer would a much better option that defaulting to regex everywhere, faster, and much better error handling.

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People do ask me why Odin's struct fields are ordered lik C rather than reordered to minimize padding (which is what a lot of new languages like Rust do). This comment from Russ Cox in 2015 is a good answer as to why Go doesn't do any reordering either:

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Why the heck are C++ iterators so bad?! Did no one ever implement a hash map before and thought "I'd like to iterate over this"? Why the heck did the `begin`/`end` nonsense have to become the standard?!

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I've been saying this for a few years now but can people please stop using things like ChatGPT as a search engine?! It's literally trained to be a Bullshitting Engine. It is trained to given an answer that "looks correct". It has no idea if it actually is.

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Esoteric? No. Impractical? No. The managerial class has ruined computer science. But Pascal in 1970 got them right, which is what I did in Odin: bit_set[Enum_Flag; u32]

Overview

An overview of the Odin programming language and its features.

odin-lang.org

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WebDevs discovering Bitmasks

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I am considering writing an article on how Handle-based systems work and how to implement one. A brilliant article on this is @FlohOfWoe 's "Handles are the better pointers" However, sometimes showing a concrete code example helps with understanding it.

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Casey Muratori | Smart-Pointers, RAII, ZII? Becoming an N+2 programmer

Casey Muratori giving his thoughts on smart-pointers, RAII, OOP, briefly the Rust borrow checker etc, and why you should avoid them and instead focus on lear...

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We have just added WebGPU to Odin! import "vendor:wgpu"

Add `vendor:wgpu` by laytan · Pull Request #3740 · odin-lang/Odin

I made these bindings and wrote the JS "proxy" a few weeks ago for a game I am making, even though webgpu is not "out" yet I think it is a valuable API for vendo...

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Monads in Go? I present to you: Gonads

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@TheGingerBill

20 days

Vanilla JavaScript + Vanilla CSS >>>>> Not even a single framework of any kind.

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Vite + React + react-router + Tailwind + Zustand >>>

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5 months

Many people may not know this but this video by Sean Barrett @nothings is partially the reason why I made the Odin programming language. And I'll explain what insights it gave me in this thread🧵

Advice for Writing Small Programs in C

-- Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/nothings2

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I need to write an article on the main issue I have with this but it'll probably become half a book: Package managers for programming languages are inherently bad. Essentially: some things should not be easier to do, and embracing the complexity of dependency hell is evil.

gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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JavaScript programmers need to be stopped. Only webdevs could think importing a file over internet was a good idea. No wonder the web is an absolute mess. SERIOUSLY? "got wrong" is even thinking it was a good idea in the first place.

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Mini-Rant: Rust was not built to be a fast language, it was built to be a memory safe language. Rust is compiled & that usually implies it will be faster than non-compiled languages. But that doesn't mean it is fast compared to other languages designed for performance.

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Sadly the state of affairs. For languages that are trying to be evolutionary (like Odin and C3) rather than revolutionary (pretty much everything else, i.e. things with a "killer feature"), even attempts to market them is harder as they are not hypeable by their very nature.

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@tsoding

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@neogoose_btw It's very unlikely since in the current playing field the adaption of a language depends on the amount of propaganda you are able to pump into social media. It's best to just stay above all of this bullshit and just enjoy Recreational Programming in a decent language.

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Introduction to the Odin Programming Language

Preface This article is an introduction to the Odin Programming Language. It is aimed at people who know a bit of programming, but have never touched Odin. It is not a reference guide, rather I try...

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Can people please stop designing NEW file-formats/protocols that use big endian anything? You don't have to use big-endian just because that's "network-endian". The network doesn't care: it's all just bytes. Pretty much all machines use little-endian, so design around that.

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I have no idea if this tutorial is good or not, but I do agree that everyone should learn how to write a HTTP server. HTTP 1.1 is a very simple protocol that everyone should understand, even if you are not in the webdev world.

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the "build Your own HTTP server" challenge on @codecraftersio is free this month trying something fun. who wants to build this project as well and hold each other accountable to finishing it? challenge can be done in Go, TS, C, etc. details below!

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@FreyaHolmer Honestly, this is actually THE BEST way of doing it. Showing that you just copy it to the Applications folder also implies that uninstalling it means you delete it from that folder. This is one of the things OSX/macOS got correct.

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JavaScript programmers need to be stopped. Only webdevs could think importing a file over internet was a good idea. No wonder the web is an absolute mess. SERIOUSLY? "got wrong" is even thinking it was a good idea in the first place.

What we got wrong about HTTP imports

Designing a module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. Here are some issues we encountered and how we solved for them.

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Odin code with Terry Davis as the background? Well that's something🤣

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@cmuratori Wait... So it's not just Wirth's Law[1] in effect but also the hardware is not becoming faster as quickly because the software developers cannot utilize it well yet?! That's a vicious feedback loop! [1} software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster

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4 months

I've been thinking about why C won out over Pascal over the years. These are my general thoughts 🧵: (1) There were way too many variants of Pascals out there, compared there being very few C variants (2) Pascals were more verbose to type (even if you read more than write)

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@TheGingerBill

2 months

odin build . For the vast vast majority of things, you don't need a build system. Odin's foreign import system defines all of the linking aspects directly in the source code and only links with stuff that you actually use too.

ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

2 months

for all of those that want to learn C try zig reasons 1. its build system is much better 2. it has testing built in 3. it will teach you everything that c will teach you other than a couple of base concepts that are not hard to learn without all the suck it really is awesome

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2 years

🧵 I have a huge gripe when I read articles/tutorials on OpenGL: most people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to coordinate systems and matrices. Specifically: OpenGL is NOT right-handed; the confusion over column-major "matrices".

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@TheGingerBill

3 years

Metal in Native Odin!!! No need for Objective-C or Swift any more it seems. (I had to do the obligatory RGB triangle) This means that Odin will ship out of the box with Metal, Vulkan, and OpenGL, and libraries such as GLFW and SDL! Only D3D to go!

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

6 months

I do dislike people (incorrectly) quoting Knuth about "premature optimization". I think a much better variation on the phrase for a different thing is much more applicable in virtually all cases: Premature generalization is the root of all evil.

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@TheGingerBill

1 year

Procedures operating on structs is Object "Oriented" Programming? Now that's a take which literally makes the term OOP meaningless. Where is the encapsulation? Data abstraction? Polymorphism? Composition? Inheritance? SOLID?

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮

@unormal

1 year

Guys like this will complain forever about oo programming and then write a shitload of C functions that all start with a struct pointer thay they operate on

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 months

Amazing to see people are now teaching gamedev with Odin+Raylib. Always a pleasure to see.

Dylan Falconer

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2 months

120 programmers signed up to the free Odin Raylib course in the past few days I hope you are all enjoying it thus far Get it:

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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@Hasen_Judi They want a functional language rather an imperative procedural one. But if that call is only used once, that inline switch is clearer to read too. Why make the user jump around the code?

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

3 years

🧵I want to clarify my position on "Undefined Behaviour" (UB) in programming languages and why @odinlang will not have any UB. It's a pretty simple position: the specification for the language will states who defines what, and then that thing defines it. 1/7

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1 month

I Interviewed The Creator Of LLVM, Clang, Swift, and Mojo

Recorded live on twitch, GET IN ### GuestsChris Lattner https://x.com/clattner_llvm?s=21&t=-sv4MdpmLrRuMIhARbLk-ghttps://www.modular.comTJ DeVrieshttps://you...

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2 months

The Odin Discord has reached over 5000 members! Thank you to all who have joined, contributed, and made our community worthwhile!

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1 year

Windows 11 is so great that having installed Python, adding it to the path, and then trying to run it from cmd.exe, it tells me to download it from the Microsoft Store instead...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

Thank you very much for having on the stream, @ThePrimeagen , it was absolute pleasure and very fun.

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 months

Brand New Odin Release! Chock full of fixes, improvements, and new packages!

Release dev-2024-07 · odin-lang/Odin

New Language Features Allow for constant strings in foreign imports #exists() -> bool @(rodata) context.random_generator Brand new runtime.Random_Generator interface Compiler ...

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5 months

In my fork of the RadDebugger, I've added support for two View Rules: `slice` to view slice-like data structs (I cover most cases that people would have), and `odin_map`. `odin_map` is for viewing a `map` from Odin.

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@TheGingerBill

1 year

I'll be having a chat with @ThePrimeagen this Thursday @ 10am PT / 6pm BST, live on Twitch! I hope to see you there in the chat 😎

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1 year

I'm not even sure why the Rust Foundation made this decision. It's absolute pure insanity. For Odin, do whatever you want with it. The compiler has the BSD 3-clause licence for this reason! It's also why I made Odin; I wanted the freedom of choice of language to do what I want!

ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

1 year

honestly, i don't know what to do with this rust foundation business... they really have made me lose a lot of faith in them

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3 months

This is the BEST PR I have ever seen (at least for Odin). The amount of time that has gone into this, let alone the code itself, is impressive and honourable. It's got GIFs, tables, detailed explanation to the rationale, modifications, and so much more.

Refactor the test runner by Feoramund · Pull Request #3646 · odin-lang/Odin

Refactor the Test Runner (Multi-Threaded Edition) Alternate PR Title: The Joy of Running Tests "A picture's worth a thousand words," so the saying goes. Pictures You&#...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 months

I've changed my mind on automatic code formatters over the years. I used to like them because I "believed" they reduced my mental overload of doing the formatting. Then changed my view to "enforce _a style_ regardless of whether I like it or not". Now I find them insulting.

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@TheGingerBill

5 months

FUCKING FINALLY! Apple has a public futex API!!!!

os_sync_wait_on_address | Apple Developer Documentation

There's never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

6 months

To quote what I said earlier: Premature generalisation is the root of all evil. This is what I mean. This is someone who made an extremely generic thing, and I bet it wasn't even needed ever. Anyone who does this should be fired out of a generic proverbial cannon.

ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

6 months

if you committed this to a codebase i worked in, i would do everything in my power to replace this with a couple asserts and see to it you leave my team please for the future you do not commit code you don't understand

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5 months

This month's release is a BIG ONE. Loads of compiler and package improvements, but also probably the last "feature" to be added to Odin: `bit_field`.

Release dev-2024-04 · odin-lang/Odin

New Language Features bit_field type Foo :: bit_field u16 { // backing type must be an integer or array of integers x: i32 | 3, // signed integers will be signed extended on use y: u1...

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@TheGingerBill

1 month

The end frame of this evening's stream. It was a very fun stream! I made a card game that had a good mix of randomness and skill to it. Stay tuned for the recording to be uploaded to YouTube!

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@TheGingerBill

1 month

More random game dev? I wonder what type of game this one will be!

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As I cannot see the rest of the code, and I will assume it is all like this, what is wrong with it? Seriously. It's doing a name check, and then doing a bit of specific non-generalizable logic per check, and then doing non-generalizable logic for the final value.

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@TheGingerBill

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I've decided to make a small game LIVE on Twitch.

ginger_bill - Twitch

Creator and Main Architect of the Odin Programming Language https://odin-lang.org/ https://www.gingerbill.org/Work with JangaFX on EmberGen, LiquiGen, and GeoGen

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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Ah yes... even longer compile times and even more convoluted code.

Tim McNamara

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You know what would be a good addition to #rustlang ? Compile-time reflection

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7 months

We have a brand new project in the Odin Showcase: CAT & ONION A cozy and whimsical short cat adventure game! It is fully written in Odin with @raylibtech , created by @karl_zylinski .

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@TheGingerBill

6 months

@tsoding Linked lists can be fine if you allocate them correctly in contiguous localized memory. The problem is usually due to people using `malloc` and that allocates it all over the place.

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I tweaked the card game from last night to use the full deck + an extra set of court/face cards. This is unironically a fun "solitaire" game for saying it was designed and made in ~2 hours and then partially polished in ~2 hours. GO MAKE GAME PROTOTYPES!

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gingerBill

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I know programming is "just a job" for many people. I originally pursed physics, specifically metrology (quantum and micro). Physics has a massive place in my heart, and I still do it in the computational sense, but I do love the joy that programming gives me—my career now.

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i wonder how many people have quit pursuing a career in software because they never learned the joy of programming or how to foster it

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Fact: All good games must have a crate and/or barrel in it.

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4 months

I've just added proper support for Big Endian `bit_field` types in Odin. It's probably a rare use case, but it is now at least feature complete.

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

This Hex Editor is absolutely amazing!!!!!! AND IT IS FREE!

ImHex

A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

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@supahvee1234 @cmuratori Do you think you are being honest or are you actively lying? Your code has separate arrays of specific types not than a single array of multiple types. You've literally done an AOS to SOA transformation as an optimization. You've just proven Casey's point about performance.

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@TheGingerBill

2 months

What really annoys me about the design of the these iterators is that they are overly complicated for very few good reasons. I understand why it is are designed the way it is, but this is not how I'd want to design it at all. This is what I'd do as a language designer.

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I'm sorry, but Go is going in the wrong direction with range over functions, iterators, etc. The core promise of the language was simplicity. Why the Go team is so eager to flush it down the drain is beyond me. I never signed up for this crap.

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New Odin Release: dev-2024-05

Release dev-2024-05 · odin-lang/Odin

New Language Features Compiler Improvements odin root command Normalize ODIN_ROOT path Improvements to arm64 ABI for returning 0 sized types Allow compiling with LLVM 18 (non-Windows targets) F...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 years

I was brought attention to this article, and specifically this table, on this site: Except for the "Examples" row, NONE of the rows are correct. My favourite being that "Procedural programming is based on the _unreal world_". 🤣

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gingerBill

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Minimizing padding does seem like a good idea in that it does make structs smaller. However, and this might be an experience bias, I just naturally pack structs and arrange fields in the order that they get accessed together with most of the time.

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3 months

I thought I'd briefly actually explain where Odin's style of tagged unions come from: ALGOL68. Yes, you read that correctly. When people think of "proper unions", they want ML-style, but there are a few different traditions out there. ALGOL68, Pascal, ML, and hybrids.

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I don't know how many times I have to repeat this but: DO NOT USE LANGUAGE BENCHMARKS AS A WAY TO COMPARE LANGUAGES! They are all bogus. This website particularly: And my previous rant:

Why I Hate Language Benchmarks

[Originally from a Twitter Thread] Original Twitter Post I don’t know if I have “ranted” about this here before but: I absolutely HATE comparing programming languages with “benchmarks”. Language...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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This is an After Effects plugin created by "graphisco" from the Odin Discord server, and it is 100% written in Odin (except for third party licensing libraries). I wanted to plug this as it is now available to purchase and looks absolutely amazing!

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Here is the source code for the game I made last night: It's all Public Domain. Have fun!

GitHub - gingerBill/game-face-the-court: Card Game Produced Live on Stream

Card Game Produced Live on Stream. Contribute to gingerBill/game-face-the-court development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@TheGingerBill

6 months

Does anyone know why there are not many languages that support fixed-point arithmetic as a native data type? I know floating-point has kind of won, but there are many benefits to fixed-point. Did floating-point win because languages natively supported with syntax?

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Release dev-2024-08 · odin-lang/Odin

New Language Features Compiler Improvements Update to LLVM 18.1.8 Force compiler source to be parsed as UTF-8 (Windows) Improve various compiler-internal asserts Fix #soa assignment bug Add error ...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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Friends of mine have just launch a new multiplayer game on multiple platforms (iOS, Windows, and Mac), using a fully custom game engine. It's a nice selection of games to play, and even more to come soon! I highly recommend people to check "All Out":

All Out - Play Endless Games

Join the action on All Out, a gaming platform where you can create and play endless games with friends.

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"Boundaries of Language Design" with Andrew Kelley & Ginger Bill

I talk with Andrew Kelley and Ginger Bill about the position of classical languages in the textual programming paradigm.We talk about what makes a programmin...

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@TheGingerBill

3 years

I got Metal working natively in @odinlang the other day. I've now gone and got D3D11 and D3D12 working in Odin! Odin shipping out-of-the-box will all of major graphics APIs: Metal, D3D11, D3D12, Vulkan, OpenGL, and WebGL!

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My random escapade in gamedev last night on Twitch has now been uploaded to YouTube:

Isometric Madness - Random Live Game Dev - 2024-07-09

Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/ginger_bill

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Odin is omnipresent, @tsoding 😜

Tsoding - tsoding on odin

Watch Tsoding's clip titled "tsoding on odin"

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9 months

My talk at Handmade Seattle for the the folks who didn't catch it live: Starts at 32m52s, ends around 1h27m20s

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

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@TheGingerBill

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I don't know if I have "ranted" about this here before but: I absolutely HATE comparing programming languages with "benchmarks". Language benchmarks _rarely_ ever actually test for anything useful when comparing one language against another. This goes for ANY language.

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2 years

The annotated profiler for the Odin compiler on a large project. 90% of the time is out of our control (LLVM and Linker). The frontend is taking about 500ms for a ~150 KLOC Odin project (equivalent to 0.5MLOC of C effectively), so not bad in terms of type checking. Hell is LLVM

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11 Reasons to Program using Odin in 12 Minutes

Learn game programming: https://programvideogames.com/pong.html (free course using Odin + Raylib!)X: https://x.com/falconerdOdin: https://odin-lang.orgRaylib...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 years

🧵 Why Odin was not designed as an OOP language: I have been asked numerous times before about the reasoning for not having methods (member procedures) in @odinlang , and why it only has stand-alone procedures. 1/9

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@TheGingerBill

21 days

@RGBCubed file := open(path) or_return defer close(file) return read(file)

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

Can someone explain to my why people believe that C-style for loops should not be in a "modern programming language"? If the argument is "ranges or iterators replace the need", in the latter case: please show me the generated machine code (especially without optimizations).

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If "middleware" in the web world is called that because it is in the "middle" of the pipeline, does that mean there is such thing as "beginware" and "endware"? If not, I am now coining those terms.

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The Actor Model and CSP are mathematical duals of each other, or just exact opposites of one another by default. I'll start explaining both concurrency models in terms of a graph of threads and communication.

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I've been implementing the new and improved search facility for the Odin Package Documentation

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I am unironically still playing that card game I made on Twitch: I've added 3 different difficulties, the ability to reset a game, and some basic animations.

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I did a experimental test today with a colleague about storing the `context` pointer in a thread local variable instead of passing it implicitly to all procedures to see if would be better for performance. TL;DR it was identical in performance (within experimental bounds)

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I Tried Odin, It's Way Better Than C!! feat. Ginger Bill (Creator)

Odin is awesome, also HUGE thanks to Ginger Bill for coming onto the stream to guide me through Odin!························································...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

I'm current experimenting with making -verbose-errors the default in Odin and added ANSI colors if the terminal supports it. Here is what it looks like cmd.exe on my machine:

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 months

I pretty much hate do-while loops in C, but implementing Radial/Half Edge data structures is pretty much the only case where a do-while is the bee's knees. I've been having to emulate it in Odin with: for { ...; (cond) or_break } I am still never adding do-while to Odin.

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@DanielcHooper Luckily most of the APIs I care about are still implemented in Objective-C. And because of that, I added direct support of Objective-C in Odin so I never need to use Swift. It's actually nicer to use Metal in Odin than both Objective-C and Swift.

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

raylib 4.5 is now officially supported with @odinlang Code: `import rl "vendor:raylib"` Source: Docs: Examples:

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

Creator of Odin, Ginger Bill, Full Stream

LIVE ON TWITCH: https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagenGet in on Discord: https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagenGet in on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

7 months

Hot Reload Gameplay Code: What, why, limitations and examples!

This post is about what hot reload for gameplay code is, why you would use it and what the limitations are. I’ll also present an example implementation in Odin Programming Language. The final section...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

9 months

This is not "deeply insane" nor an "optimization" (on itself). The problem exists in C++ too with `const &` stuff. This is just passing parameters implicitly by pointer, which so many languages do. This approach exists for a reason in many languages.

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@mycoliza

9 months

this is a deeply insane optimization for a self-professed “systems language” to do by default!

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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Why are they two naming traditions for this: Marshalling/Unmarshalling Serializing/Deserializing I know some people make a distinction between the two, and say that serialization is a part of marshalling, but I've always treated them as if they were the same.

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

3 years

Odin is getting NATIVE Metal support very soon! And it is even cleaner than writing it in Objective-C!

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

1 year

Odinlang Creator Ginger Bill Talks Odin!

Recorded live on twitch, GET IN https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagenMY MAIN YT CHANNEL: Has well edited engineering videoshttps://youtube.com/ThePrimeagenDiscordht...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

2 years

Interested in Metal and @odinlang ? We've just released 10 self-contained code examples ranging from creating a window, to instanced rendering, and even compute shaders all in native Odin!

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

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Is Odin "Programming done right"? (with Bill Hall)

Odin’s creator, Bill Hall, makes some bold claims about the language, including that it’s “programming done right”. Before that starts a war on the internet,...

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

8 months

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

5 months

I've just added a minor new feature to Odin to help support more third party libraries: #row_major matrices:

Add `#row_major matrix[R, C]T` · odin-lang/Odin@a750fc0

As well as `#column_major matrix[R, C]T` as an alias for just `matrix[R, C]T`. This is because some libraries require a row_major internal layout but still want to be used with row or major oriente...

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