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48 from 19 Aug 2015 to 28 Oct 2026
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2026 14

  1. Free Software, Per Accidens
  2. CTTI is Exponential, RTTI is Linear
  3. Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
  4. Good Tools Are Invisible
  5. The Aesthetic Problem of Namespacing
  6. Signed By Default Camp
  7. Blessed Syntax and Ergonomics
  8. Odin's Fiasco with Wikipedia
  9. Designing Odin's Casting Syntax
  10. Does Syntax Matter?
  11. Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?
  12. The Only Two Markup Languages
  13. Mitigating the Billion Dollar Mistake
  14. Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?

2025 4

  1. context—Odin's Most Misunderstood Feature
  2. Package Managers are Evil
  3. If Odin Had Macros
  4. Unstructured Thoughts on the Problems of OSS/FOSS

2024 6

  1. OpenGL is not Right-Handed
  2. Marketing the Odin Programming Language is Weird
  3. Why People are Angry over Go 1.23 Iterators
  4. String Type Distinctions
  5. The Video That Inspired Me To Create Odin
  6. Why I Hate Language Benchmarks

2022 1

  1. Reverse Engineering Alembic

2021 8

  1. Multiple Return Values Research
  2. Memory Allocation Strategies - Part 6
  3. Memory Allocation Strategies - Part 5
  4. The Value Propagation Experiment Part 2
  5. The Value Propagation Experiment
  6. Untyped Types
  7. Structured Control Flow (Brain Dump)
  8. The Essence of Programming

2020 5

  1. The Fatal Flaw of Ownership Semantics
  2. Flash Fads Model (Audio Article)
  3. Pragmatism in Programming Proverbs
  4. Relative Pointers
  5. A Reply to _Let's stop copying C_

2019 6

  1. A Reply to _The Road to Zig 1.0_
  2. A Quine in Odin
  3. Memory Allocation Strategies - Part 4
  4. Memory Allocation Strategies - Part 3
  5. Memory Allocation Strategies - Part 2
  6. Memory Allocation Strategies - Part 1

2018 2

  1. ExceptionsAnd Why Odin Will Never Have Them
  2. On the Aesthetics of the Syntax of Declarations

2016 1

  1. The Metaprogramming Dilemma

2015 1

  1. A Defer Statement For C++11