Is it "quite successful"? How would I distinguish such a "quite successful" language from say Hare or V or are these all "successful" in your mind?

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gingerBill 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I know very few people using Hare, especially since it only works on "FOSS platforms". And I will still maintain that V is vapourware. They still have the same false claims on the website that they've had from the beginning for ~6 years.

Odin is "successful enough" so far. Also, you know about it, so that says something.

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tialaramex 4 days ago | parent [-]

I know about Hare and V too, so, then what exactly does it say for me to know about a programming language? Not much.

I have technically written more Odin than Hare (one Godbolt example, arguably two if you count my explaining how to modify the example to illustrate another problem) but that just means I have more justification to say I don't like it.

I've written a lot more Scheme and I had so thoroughly forgotten writing Scheme that I had to go read the source for myself when I got email about it decades later to be sure it wasn't just a coincidence of author names.

I'm not convinced there is space for any of the "C successor" languages in the twenty-first century and in the event space is made or given for one I doubt there'll somehow be room for more. So with today's field I would bet on Zig.

	▲	gingerBill 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Odin is not trying to be a "C successor" rather as the website states: "Odin is the C alternative for the Joy of Programming". And there doesn't have to be "one winner". This isn't Highlander. It is just wonderful that there is now choice in this domain beyond just the old and obvious.

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dismalaf 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's commercial software produced in Odin that has made money. Not sure the same can be said of Hare or V.

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kunley 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Why the need for distinguishing and an urge for comparison? We're talking about Odin, that's it. As a project that (as I understand) didn't have any big corp investment, it's impressive.

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tialaramex 4 days ago | parent [-]

The claim was that we should assume Odin's author is experienced because he wrote a successful language. If we've decided it doesn't matter whether it's successful then the claim was entirely circular. Yes, the creator of Odin is indeed its creator. Nobody was disputing that.

	▲	kunley 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Even if he was unsuccesful but tried long enough, that would still make him experienced. I don't see how a detailed comparing of language successfullness would bring anything valuable to the point being made about the author being experienced. That seemed just a noise.