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.

Portable Build Tools #

ftphikari has released their PortableBuildTools, a “Portable, simple and fast installer for Visual Studio build tools.”

Streams / Youtube Content #

Karl Zylinski has been streaming solo gamedev using Odin, Raylib & Aseprite.

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@karl_zylinski

Mjölnir has recently been uploading videos on Pico (a tiny text editor) and basic data structure implementations / explanations.

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mjolnirdev/

Showcase #

Showcase from May #

Showcase from June #