[deathanatos]

> String types

It's a byte string.

> rune is the set of all Unicode code points.

We copied the awful name from Go … and the docs are wrong.

Five different boolean types?

Zero values. (Every value has some default value, like in Go.)

Odin also includes the Billion Dollar Mistake.

> There seemed to be an anti-DIY approach in the community that finally drew me away.

It's a "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach, at least until the community knows which design stands a good chance of not being a regretted addition to the standard library.