💻 System programming languages

Earlier this year, I posted my preliminary thoughts on Odin. While I finished reading Karl Zylinski’s Odin book, the Odin compiler got noticeably faster. Odin isn’t the only language I considered, and due to a bout of uncertainty, I continued evaluating the alternatives. C What could be more handmade than choosing C and writing my own standard library (data structures, allocators, etc). Odin doesn’t yet support game consoles or even Windows ARM64, whereas C is everywhere. SDL3 (C) even has an official fork for consoles.

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