My Odin book is out! ✨ Q&A

[@hardkorebhaktaofbob]

Hey man keep up the good work. You are a very good teacher. Thank you for everything youve made.

[@scottwilliams1902]

Congratulations. I hope is does well for you.

[@grendel6o]

RAAAHHH YEAH I LOVE ODIN AND I LOVE KARL

[@karl_zylinski]

Regarding the question about what things Odin statically links when you do a default `odin build .` compile: The runtime is statically linked. For example, you don't need any C/C++ redist package on Windows.

[@albizutoday2754]

Congrats on you accomplishment

[@karl_zylinski]

Thank you!

[@Neoclassicalmaese]

I have been waiting for this ever since you announced it! Can’t wait to get home and get it. Big fan of your content! Congratulations on this awesome accomplishment

[@karl_zylinski]

Thank you!! 💖

[@ferinzz]

Looking forward to the memory management section! It's what I feel like I'm the least knowledgeable about in Odin. Since memory is supposed to be manually freed it's what has me the most worried about making a problem :D ie : when is something going to be freed automatically when it goes out of scope vs when do I need to do it myself. Similarly with the deferred call. How to use properly.

[@karl_zylinski]

Let me know how it went! Your type of background is something that I've tried to cater to in the book. So I'm interested in if I succeeded or not

[@MichaelGame_Dev]

Congrats, currently writing mostly Ruby for game dev, bur do want to learn some Odin and C for lower level options. Picked this up to start poking through at some point. Figure it will help me be a better programmer overall with the memory management piece at the least! Edit: Will keep an eye out for the game jam, may try to do that and use this as my companion for that.

[@karl_zylinski]

Thank you. I agree, it helps in general! Understanding manual memory management makes you better at writing code in languages such as Ruby too, because you understand what Ruby is doing automatically for you, making it possible for you to do more well-informed choices.