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You can’t conclude that a language has taken direct inspiration from another just because they look similar.


https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#what-have-been-the-major-inf...

Fortunately there's a FAQ, and from that there are two Rob Pike languages (Newsqueak and Go) as well as a pair of Wirth languages (Pascal, Oberon-2).


That’s fair. That’s however not what the OP claimed, which is what I was responding to.


The creator of Odin has made it very clear he was inspired by and borrowed from both Go and Jai, which is perfectly acceptable. It's also very obvious, to any who have looked at the documentation or used the languages. The other poster already gave you a link, where Go is acknowledged. If you investigate further (Google), you will see that Jai inspired and was borrowed from too.

I suppose your argument is about Odin, being compared to Jai, but its very obvious they are in near categories. Pretty much whatever a person would have used Jai for, they can use Odin. Maybe you want to also watch the YouTube link of Jai versus Odin (https://youtu.be/M763xHjsPk4).

And, it might hurt some feelings, but I'm very understanding of people that rather use Odin than to wait around for Jai.


Does anyone know what influences were taken from Oberon-2 in Odin?




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