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Just by reading this introduction, Zig seems like a much better designed language so far. Odin inherits a lot of warts from horrible languages like Go, and the
by desdenova 2y ago
Just by reading this introduction, Zig seems like a much better designed language so far.
Odin inherits a lot of warts from horrible languages like Go, and they seem to have run out of ideas to solve some problems at some point.
- forrestthewoods 2y agoCan you be more specific? What do you like about Zig? What warts does Odin inherit?
- metaltyphoon 2y agoI don’t think zero values is a good idea on Odin. In Zig, anytype will be a mistake.
- cardanome 2y ago> Odin inherits a lot of warts from horrible languages like Go Still waiting on you to list what those "warts" may be. I mean sure golang may be overly conservative in its design but calling it "horrible" is a very wild take. The only evil I know of that golang has perpetuated is making an unused-variable error an compile error that will block compilation instead of an linter error. This makes prototyping much more annoying. Ironically a design mistake that Zig has copied as well. Not sure if Odin does actually