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Rusky 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Marketing the Odin programming language is weird

> those “killer features” are usually absolute nonsense, very niche, or they rarely have any big benefit

This is a fantastic way to turn everyone off of your language: dismiss everything they like about the ones they're already using!

IshKebab 3 months ago [–]

Right? So I'm apparently an idiot for thinking Rust's borrow checker, or Go's blissful deployment experience, or Zig's clever comptime system are good... Ok I guess I'm not going to like Odin then.

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