[Originally from a Twitter Thread] Original Twitter Post Many people may not know this but this video by Sean Barrett @nothings is partially the reason why I made the Odin programming language. And I’ll explain what insights it gave me in this thread 🧵. A lot of these seem “so obvious” but for some reason it never clicked to me before this video. A lot of the “higher level” “scripting” languages are not that much higher level than C. Those languages just have garbage collecti...