News | Odin Programming Language

Hey all 👋 This month we’re doing things differently and want to show off more from the Odin Discord Community. We’ll go over release note highlights and official package news as usual.

Release note highlights

Highlights from May

New compiler flag -max-error-count:<integer>
Prevent trivial copying with struct #no_copy
Experimental @(deferred_*_by_ptr=<proc>) attribute
Make !x be an untyped boolean

Highlights from June

Allowing for Positional and Named Arguments in Procedure Calls details
New and Improved io.Stream interface details
bindFramebuffer was added to webgl
Added self_cleanup flag to properly auto-clean threads

Package / Bindings News

Bindings for lua were added with several versions: vendor:lua/ + 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4
Improvements to the JSON tokenizer
Partially buffer all fmt.fprint* related calls using a bufio.Writer
Font texture atlas builder port of fontstash was added to vendor:fontstash
Vectorized rendering port of nanovg was added to vendor:nanovg
Nanovg backends for OpenGL 2.0, OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 3.2 core profile and OpenGL ES 3 were added to vendor:nanovg/gl

New Bindings / Packages

HTTP/1.1 Implementation using core:net - laytan
mimalloc bindings - jakubtomsu (Jacob)
lz4 bindings - jakubtomsu (Jacob)
fmod bindings - jakubtomsu (Jacob)
shaderc bindings - Matt_
libpcap bindings - Pix

Primeagen Interview with GingerBill

GingerBill was recently interviewed by ThePrimeagen (~51 min.). It included a walkthrough through the demo.odin file, going over odin’s features and answering viewer questions.

## Package Registry `mjölnir` has released an alpha build of their [Odin Package Registry](https://pkg-odin.org/).