# The Odin Programming Language The Odin programming language 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](https://youtu.be/TMCkT-uASaE?t=338) - [Demo](https://youtu.be/TMCkT-uASaE?t=1800) - [Q&A](https://youtu.be/TMCkT-uASaE?t=5749) * [Composition & Refactorability](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wemZfcbXM) * [Introspection, Modules, and Record Layout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFq8rhWhx4s) * [push_allocator & Minimal Dependency Building](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_LGVOAMb78) * [when, for, & procedure overloading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeOekzyZK8) ## 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 not fixed. ## Roadmap Not in any particular order * Compile Time Execution (CTE) - More metaprogramming madness - Compiler as a library - AST inspection and modification * CTE-based build system * Replace LLVM backend with my own custom backend * Improve SSA design to accommodate for lowering to a "bytecode" * SSA optimizations * Parametric Polymorphism ("Generics") * Documentation Generator for "Entities" * Multiple Architecture support * Language level atomics and concurrency support * Debug Information - pdb format too * Command Line Tooling * Compiler Internals: - Big numbers library - Multithreading for performance increase