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by gyesxnuibh
410 days ago
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Rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of code just isn't really feasible honestly. Maybe you just mean the actually bottle neck can use C bindings or whatever. Or, maybe you can migrate some microservices and hope it goes smoothly. But, typing does more than performance. It basically helps a ton of engineers work together efficiently which honestly is bigger than the compute cuz you can always throw more compute at all problem these days anyway. I don't think typing is necessarily to prevent bugs either. It's to reduce the cognitive load of writing code. Others mention that intellisense and LLMs work better with types. Types do a lot more than catching a runtime error of a method not existing. I am curious about Odin, I'm mostly a go dev so getting something without the GC and go schedule that writes similarly is really interesting to me. |
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It's very pleasant. Reminds me a lot of Pascal, but modern and even nicer to write. There's some Go inspiration but I'd say it's more like Pascal than Go. More full featured than Pascal or C, simpler than C++ or Rust. C bindings are super easy to use. Has array maths, Fortran style... I use it whenever I have an excuse to (not often enough). Super fun, just missing a large ecosystem (but it's also got bindings to enough stuff for a young language).