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by dismalaf 27 days ago
> Those "weird websites" have a reputation one can track.

Do they? I mean, I don't track them.

But as an example, let's use CBC. They've published nearly a redaction per day on their stories... https://www.cbc.ca/news/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564

They're a government run, public broadcaster and they're this poor... But they're an acceptable Wikipedia source.

Meanwhile, someone like the Primeagen has 1.15 million followers and has used Odin. That's not notable?

JangaFX products have been used by creators that cumulatively have millions of subscribers, on top of a website that says they use Odin, on top of the CEO and others X accounts, but that's not enough to convince people JangaFX is a real company with real products?

Remember, CNN and all the "trusted" news outlets also have YouTube accounts.

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Publishing retractions is a sign of reliability. Wikipedia is actually more concerned about sources that don't publish retractions.

If Odin is so notable, why haven't any of the normal tech publications ever mentioned it? One company using it does not necessarily make it notable.

> Remember, CNN and all the "trusted" news outlets also have YouTube accounts.

And those YouTube accounts are not considered reliable sources by Wikipedia. In fact, basically only CNN's published articles are considered reliable.

> the normal tech publications

Name 1 "normal tech publication" that anyone reads that covers programming languages.

This took me approximately two seconds to find: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/linux-leaders-pave-a...
A gossip article about Linux, Linus and Rust? You're not selling it...
I gave you the first search result. There are probably tens of thousands of articles in newspapers and magazines about Rust, along with probably hundreds of published books. Unlike Odin, Rust is notable and heavily covered by secondary sources.
If it's so easy to find why did you choose gossip? Take the second hit or third if it's all so technical. But it's not. It's all garbage gossip because Ars Technica is a garbage site, it's like TMZ for nerds.

As for books...

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Odin-Programming-Langua...