I learned Odin

TL;DR

• 1

  Odin won him over fast: Rewriting his old Love2D tower defense in Odin got him to a working level renderer with JSON-loaded data, pathing, and an auto-generated Perlin-noise background after roughly 20 to 30 hours in the language.

• 2

  Raylib beat Love2D for his use case: He gushes over Raylib's texture and source-rectangle model because scaling, flipping, and drawing feel simpler and easier to reason about than Love2D's interfaces.

• 3

  Explicit function overloading is his favorite surprise: Odin's version of overloading clicked for him because you must explicitly declare which functions share a name, which made helpers like cell_index feel clean instead of magical.

• 4

  Odin's using feature made grid code pleasant: By embedding coordinates into a Cell, he can pass a Cell where a Coordinate is expected, which fits a row-and-column tower defense game nicely.

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  AI worked fine with Odin, but not magically: He says models did not get confused by the language and quickly generated JSON-loading code, though he still had to refactor heavily because the output was often bad.

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  The real point is recovering his love of coding: He says the past 6 to 12 months of pushing into AI programming drained his passion, and this dev log channel is his attempt to return to building things by hand because that is what got him into programming in the first place.