The Odin Programming Language

Odin is fast, concise, readable, pragmatic and open sourced. It is designed with the intent of replacing C with the following goals:

• simplicity
• high performance
• built for modern systems
• joy of programming
• metaprogramming
• designed for good programmers

Demonstrations:

• First Talk & Demo
  • Talk
  • Demo
  • Q&A
• Composition & Refactorability
• Introspection, Modules, and Record Layout
• push_allocator & Minimal Dependency Building

Requirements to build and run

• Windows
• x86-64
• MSVC 2015 installed (C99 support)
• Requires MSVC's link.exe as the linker
  • run vcvarsall.bat to setup the path

Warnings

• This is still highly in development and the language's design is quite volatile.
• Syntax is definitely not fixed

Roadmap

Not in any particular order

• Custom backend to replace LLVM
  • Improve SSA design to accommodate for lowering to a "bytecode"
  • SSA optimizations
  • COFF generation
  • linker
• Type safe "macros"
• Documentation generator for "Entities"
• Multiple architecture support
• Inline assembly
• Linking options
  • Executable
  • Static/Dynamic Library
• Debug information
  • pdb format too
• Command line tooling
• Compiler internals:
  • Big numbers library