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gingerBill

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gingerBill

@TheGingerBill

I'm a Ginger thus I have no soul. Creator of the Odin Programming Language odin-lang.org Working at @JangaFX on EmberGen/LiquiGen/GeoGen/IlluGen

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Joined May 2009

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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Dec 6, 2024
It's amazing and surreal to see this. The very first BOOK on Odin is available NOW!!! @karl_zylinski has done an excellent job on the book and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn and understand the Odin programming language.
Karl Zylinski
@karl_zylinski
Dec 6, 2024
My digital book "Understanding the Odin Programming Language" is OUT NOW! ✨ If you want to learn Odin and demystify low-level programming, then this book is for you! Read more or buy at: odinbook.com
Understanding the Odin Programming Language
From odinbook.com
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Feb 3, 2025
I don't know how many times I need to say this: LLMs are literally trained to be Bullshitting Engines. They cannot reason; they don't "understand" anything. All they do is give an answer that is highly probably to _sound_ correct, not actually _be_ correct (i.e. bullshitting).
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Feb 12, 2025
I don't use assembly. I literally use a steady hand and a magnetized needle to program the computer directly. Keep thinking you need an assembler.
Dmitriy Kovalenko
@neogoose_btw
Feb 12, 2025
I don't use C. I literally use assembly and one simple command in my shell history to invoke an assembler and get the binary executable. Keep thinking you need C or a compiler.
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Jul 14, 2025
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Oct 31, 2025
Discord's "time spend in voice chat" feature has really bad formatting. WHAT IS THIS?! "%d:%d:%02d" How did this even happen?!
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Aug 10, 2025
This is an absolute insult to both Wirth and Dijkstra to compare them to the snake oil salesman that is Mr. Martin.
Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
Aug 10, 2025
Every generation needs its programming practices critic. With Niklas Wirth and Edsger Dijkstra gone, UBM is carrying the torch.
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Nov 26, 2024
This trailer is just over 10 years old but it spawned a career for me and many others, as well as the many friends I made that I still have today. Thank you for everything you did, @cmuratori.
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
May 14, 2025
I'm really starting to hate Windows 11 so much. Even copy-and-paste is starting to be broken and have a 3 second delay. It's that bad. I'm not moving to mac nor linux yet until I have all of the tooling there.
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Nov 23, 2024
Go is an unabashed procedural language. Why do people say "look it cannot do functional programming, therefore it's bad"? Do these people think before they write?
void__zero2
@void_zero2
Nov 23, 2024
Go is not a simpler language folks. Fewer keywords does not equate simpler code. Not in writing code, reading code nor maintaining code 🤷‍♂️ Change my mind
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Jun 10, 2025
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Jun 6, 2025
I've noticed a lot of Go "hate" recently. And I want to clarify one thing—this is not error _handling_ but error _propagation_: if err != nil { return err } People complaining at the moment that this is annoying are usually the people who rarely HANDLE the error cases.
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Nov 4, 2025
I cannot believe I am saying this but I'm going to have to defend this... JVM is actually a great piece of technology! Java is a "good" language but it's nowhere near the best languages, and that's fine. My problems with Java are mostly with OOP; not Java itself, per se.
Theo - t3.gg
@theo
Nov 2, 2025
You guys are too agreeable. Let me try again. Java is a good language and the JVM is one of the greatest contributions to modern software.
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
May 6, 2025
This is pure bait. The only true answer is to test. The bait is that there will be two camps: Cache Misses and O(N).
zack
@zack_overflow
May 5, 2025
If you can tell which is more likely to be slower, you're better than 99.99% of CS grads:
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gingerBill
@TheGingerBill
Jun 27, 2025
lol
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