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Not a criticism, but a general observation: it’s increasingly surprising to me, when looking into an unfamiliar low-level/systems language, to find that the lan
by eyelidlessness 5y ago
Not a criticism, but a general observation: it’s increasingly surprising to me, when looking into an unfamiliar low-level/systems language, to find that the language has WASM support but doesn’t shout it from their website. I’m sure that isn’t the most important thing to be preoccupied by, but it feels like a common enough ask at this point that I’d expect languages with a WASM story to make that fact easily discoverable.
All that aside, at first blush Odin feels quite approachable from mostly high level experience. I am (and probably at this point will forever be) intimidated by manual memory management, but otherwise I read the overview on my phone and… nothing feels hard to grasp, everything easily maps to concepts I already recognize, and the prose explanations are written well for an audience of me. And I want to emphasize: I read this on my phone and found it valuable, that’s an unexpectedly good walk up experience.