A NES emulator written in Odin

boltzmann64 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

i love odin.

- manual memory management

- arena and pool allocators

- go style err!=nill style exception handling

- first class support for soa and vectorized simd, linear algebra and swizzling

- sanely typed and namespaces

- explicit unambigious overloading, subroutine context

- first class support for defer statements

- zero friction C ffi

if you haven't heard of odin, you should definitely consider it.

	▲	christophilus 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		LLMs are pretty good at it, too. I recently had Haiku rewrite all of my Quickshell Linux UIs (dux) to Odin + an immediate mode GUI library: launcher, Niri bar, WiFi manager, process manager, lock screen, HUD audio/brightness, etc. Did all but the process manager in a day, while I was spending 99% of my time paying attention to my day job. Anyway, Odin is my favorite of the new systems languages. Lightweight, ergonomic, decent stdlib. It’s quite good.

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anthk 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Odin needs too recent LLVM versions to work. A pity this Reticulum client it's written on that, because if it were written in Go it would be instantly portable to legacy machines:

https://github.com/Quad4-Software/Ren-TUI

Reticulum in Go:

https://github.com/Quad4-Software/Reticulum-Go

On Odin itself, it looks really simple, and I'd love it if it were self-bootstrapable or compilable with just a C99 compiler like cparser, cproc or TCC.