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And which language did you enjoy coding in the most? Yeah, a subjective question :-). (Edit: Missed the auto-generated part, so maybe you don't have an opinion on experience regarding this?)

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I think actually Odin, although I was surprised by that (being more of a Zig fan). Odin has some neat convenience features which are nice for higher level code, while Zig can be a lot more 'draconian' by enforcing correctness even at the cost of some "line noise" (but I guess both languages are still in flux, so that might change).

As for Nim I enjoyed it initially (because of the Python vibes I guess) but the automatic memory management gets confusing quickly. IIRC there's quite a few different reference types - but maybe that has been simplified in 2.0

PS: Even though the bindings are auto-generated, I still try to make them 'language-idiomatic' by injecting some 'semi-manual' mappings for things like naming conventions or implicit type conversions, ideally getting the API close to what a 'native' API would look like - at least that's the goal.

This might sound strange, but in my opinion Odin is a Pascal variant with a C like syntax.

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