#326 Creator Of Odin Programming Language | GingerBill @TechOverTea
#326 Creator Of Odin Programming Language | GingerBill  @TechOverTea
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today we have the creator of the Odin programming language on the show, Gingerbill to talk about the creation of the language and eventually have some fun talking about his page being removed from Wikipedia.

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Odin Lang Website: odin-lang.org

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00:00 Intro
01:14 What is Odin?
02:47 C/C++ Frustrations
06:50 Language Flaw or Skill Issue?
09:00 AI & Productivity
15:46 What Odin Fixes
25:14 Odin's Origins
28:02 Vision for Odin 1.0
29:40 Package Managers are Evil
40:30 Evolution of the Internet
43:30 Dependency Bloat
45:00 Installing Arch Linux
45:58 Installing Software should be easy
50:00 Windows is Cursed
51:20 Linux vs Windows Development Experience
53:00 Odin Use Cases
57:25 Does Code Ergonomics Matter?
59:15 Build Speeds are important
01:00:37 Odin's Design Principles
01:08:55 Design choice you don't agree with
01:11:05 Pitching a non open source/free programming
01:11:50 Economics of making a programming lanugage
01:13:35 Open source sustainability
01:23:30 Criticism of Linux Ecosystem
01:28:00 Most Software nowadays are a mess
01:33:32 Odin's Wikipedia page
01:48:42 Odin book
01:50:44 Recommendation for starting on Odin
1:53:50 Where to check Odin / Ginger Bill social media links

#Programming #Odin #Developer #OpenSource #FOSS

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Aces High by Kevin MacLeod
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