Over the past month or so I've been learning Odin and I'm enjoying it so much that I'm breaking the silence on the blog.

I was quite into Zig for a while, but Odin seems more mature at this point and, honestly, much more learnable and easier to make things work. Writing Odin makes me remember what it was like when I started writing Python -- that feeling of "it can't be this easy, can it??". I still like Zig, but Odin is just more... fun? And much faster to learn, I feel.

I like that "joy of programming" is one of the principles behind it. I also like the vibe of "have fun, make something" that seems to come from the community, maybe particularly from people like Karl Zylinksi, who wrote an Odin book and made some great tutorials for Odin and Raylib, among others.

In the world of AI agents that can spit code faster than you can say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", I believe joy becomes even more important for enjoying the activity of programming.

What I've made so far:

• toyed around with raylib, which comes installed with Odin, and for which there are some great tutorials, from the same Odin book fellow aforementioned.
• odin-jack-example-clients: I ported some example programs for the JACK Audio API from C to Odin: a program that generates a sine wave, one that reads MIDI events and sends audio to the output device, and another which records from the microphone and saves a WAVE file. Audio programming is a long-term journey for me and has been one of the main motivations for me to get back to low-level programming again after many years of mostly doing Python.
• this very website (source code here), which I've migrated from Pelican to my own custom static site generator, which includes a tiny Jinja-like template engine.

Can't wait to make something else!