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== History ==
Work started on the language in July 2016<ref>{{cite web |title=Odin first commit |url=https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/commit/f7a669d342c96451a3e0be84e2e51af8631f90ec |website=GitHub |access-date=24 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>. Designer Bill Hall decided to make a language that could replace his needs for [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-08 |title=The Odin Programming Language |url=https://handmade.network/forums/t/1338-the_odin_programming_language#7533 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Handmade Network |language=en-US}}</ref> Since then the language has been developed as open source on GitHub.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Odin Programming Language |date=2023-11-27 |url=https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin |access-date=2023-11-27 |publisher=Odin}}</ref>. It was considered sufficiently widely used to be added to GitHub's Linguist in July 2020<ref>{{cite web |title=Odin's pull request to Linguist |url=https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/pull/4676 |website=Github}}</ref>.
==Notable software built with Odin==
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