Condensed Odin Language Overview

Odin is a small, simple, pragmatic, consistent, batteries-included, non-OO, general-purpose language (which also contains features to support low-level programming). Odin is ergonomic. It’s a compiled language, and utilizes manual memory management. Some details about Odin:

source files end in “.odin”
// comment, /* multi-line comment*/
curlies, but no semis (well, semicolons optional)
arrays and maps are built-in
not OO. No methods.
package = library = directory of .odin files (all with the same package line at the top)
x: int declare x as an int. Init val = 0
x: int = 3 is unnecesary; instead, just do:
x := 3 (the type is inferred)
types of ints: i8, i16, i32, i64 (int is i64 on 64-bit machine)
types of unsigned ints: u8, u16, etc.
types of floats: f16, f32, f64
inferred type of 3 is int. inferred type of 3.0 is f64.
bools are true and false
strings work like you’d expect: s := "hello world"