karl_zylinski

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   by karl_zylinski 1y ago

   I (the author of the article) also made a kooky game called CAT & ONION: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781210/CAT__ONION/ It's a short game made in Odin, but I spent a lot of effort in polishin
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   by karl_zylinski 1y ago

   There are many additional annoying things with C. Odin just happens to choose my preferred solutions to many of those issues. It's a lot of tiny things that are right rather than a single "killer feature". I recommend just tr
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   by karl_zylinski 1y ago

   I like this aspect about Odin. It doesn't try to fundamentally solve any new problems. Instead it does many things right. So it becomes hard to say "this is why you should use Odin". It's more like, try it for yourself a
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   by karl_zylinski 1y ago

   It's indeed some kind of sweet spot. It has those things from C I liked. And it made my favorite workflows from C into "first class citizens". Not everyone likes those workflows, but for people like me it's pretty ideal.
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   by karl_zylinski 2y ago

   Hi, author here! I will update the book with a few clarifications surrounding my sloppy use of the word "decimal". As some have pointed out it is a bit of a "layman way" to view things, but nevertheless the reader should
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   by karl_zylinski 2y ago

   There's a blog post here about using Odin for making operating system: https://flysand7.hashnode.dev/writing-an-os-kernel-in-odin
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   by karl_zylinski 2y ago

   Hi, author here! The HTML version can be "printed to PDF". There is no "manually layouted" PDF available however. That requires manual typesetting the whole book, which is weeks or months of extra work. I will do that if