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Jarkko Sakkinen
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Edited 4 days ago
I learned Odin's full grammar in 2-3 hours (there's a pretty nice Kindle book about it). Now I know it well enough already that I can even write it even to paper with a carbon pen.
This is what I appreciate also in C, and is a non-existent quality in any other modern systems language.
This is what I appreciate also in C, and is a non-existent quality in any other modern systems language.
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@jarkko are youbtalking about “Understanding the Odin Programming Language” by Karl Zylinski?
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@jan yeah, it's the only book i found about it :-)
Odin is widely popular in game industry and outside of it is quite alien language so far.
I neither love Rust nor Zig because I don't understand them and what I mean by "understanding" is to understand the language from end to end all the time. They get progressively worse and it's a goa for the corresponding projects. I liked Rust in its early years but then it was quite simple and nice systems languuge; no weird language features such as async :-)
Odin is widely popular in game industry and outside of it is quite alien language so far.
I neither love Rust nor Zig because I don't understand them and what I mean by "understanding" is to understand the language from end to end all the time. They get progressively worse and it's a goa for the corresponding projects. I liked Rust in its early years but then it was quite simple and nice systems languuge; no weird language features such as async :-)
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@jarkko ok I am reading the book and this is literally burning my eyes.
decimal_number: f32 = 7.42
I can’t even remember how many times as data professional have been teaching devs why we do not save decimal data in float, especially when monetary/financial values.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@jan I might actually end up implementing ReadSeek's next version Zig.
It has one advantage especially for NPM releases i.e. same compiler binary generates all platforms. It such a huge advantage over any language feature in cross platform plugins.
Deeply acknowledged this in the middle of Odin rewrite. It's more complex with any other language than with Zig.
It has one advantage especially for NPM releases i.e. same compiler binary generates all platforms. It such a huge advantage over any language feature in cross platform plugins.
Deeply acknowledged this in the middle of Odin rewrite. It's more complex with any other language than with Zig.
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@jan and another blocker is lack of inline assembly (coming in future) and I get some FFI overhead in inference from external assembly files :-)
Still I got Qwn3-VL-2B 15-20% faster than I got in Rust :-) With Zig I can further take away unnecessary overhead.
Still I got Qwn3-VL-2B 15-20% faster than I got in Rust :-) With Zig I can further take away unnecessary overhead.
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