For the past few months I’ve been using the programming language Odin in my spare time regularly. I’ve been off and on with it for a year or so but after this past year’s Advent of Code I decided to stick with it. Briefly, Odin is a C-like language that is data-oriented and pragmatic. Or as the website says “The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development”. In my mind, the reason I’ve enjoyed it so much is: it’s the systems programming language with the fewest “wtf"s I’ve experienced so far1.