Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Is Odin "Programming done right"? (with Bill Hall)" video.

  1. C doesn't need a successor. I think C fills a niche that no other language has really mastered.
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  2. LLVM is just the backend that takes an IL from a language specific compiler front end. I don't know about Odin specifics, but there must be an Odin to LLVM compilation stage, in the same way as Clang/LLVM works for C++. Rust takes a similar approach, I believe.
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  3. I still use it. I've been coding in C and C++ for 30 years Never had a problem with it. The real problem is with how it's used.
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  4. C is a great language to learn, if only to get a better understanding of what goes on under the hood.
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  5. ​@DeveloperVoices I have that book. The Pascal version. Bought a hard cover copy 30 years ago. The book just appealed to me for some reason. It was also the textbook for an introduction to a computer programming course at my university.
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