I really like the convenience of the vendor libs and I also like not having to call vcvarsall.bat before starting to program and not having to know/use a thousand compiler flags in most cases. Convenience in general.
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I like that all the things that I used to do as best practices in C are the default in Odin. I also like that Odin implements many of the things I used to custom-build in C, and it is done exactly how I want it.
Stuff like:
- Zero is initialized
- Custom allocators and temp allocators
- Tracking allocator
- Designated initializers
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My favourite Odin feature is @gingerBill as a BDFL, saying NO to “feature” requests, keeping the language as clean and productive as possible.
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- Bit sets
- Enumerated arrays
defer- Array programming
- Package system
- Terseness & simplicity
- Default temporary allocator
- Batteries-included philosophy
- Little to no friction
It almost feels like using a high-level language, yet with all the power & control you’ll ever need.
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For sure using just doing so easily composition of types is amazing.
It allows for some quite amazing constructs.
I also like the builtin tagged union is so convenient.
And defer is basically the unique answer to i don’t use RAII stuff but just say when i want to scope kill something.