Odin is a programming language without any silly complex build system, it is as simple as "odin build .", even for large projects.
Linking is done by describing it as part of the code with its `foreign` system [1][2]. The benefit of this approach is that your code itself describes what needs to be linked against what. It also has the benefit that if you don't use a foreign library, it doesn't get linked against due to its minimal dependency system.
If you want to see huge examples of this, I recommend checking out the vendor library collection[3].
n.b. I am the creator of Odin, and one of the original goals was to create a language that didn't necessitate a complex build system and just get to programming. Requiring a complex build system and package manager are anti-features in my opinion and make programming a worse experience to use. Odin borrows heavily from (in order of philosophy and impact): Pascal, C, Go, Oberon-2, Newsqueak, GLSL.[4]
Niklaus Wirth and Rob Pike have been the programming language design idols throughout this project.
[1] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#foreign-system
[2] https://odin-lang.org/news/binding-to-c/
[3] https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/tree/master/vendor
[4] https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#what-have-been-the-major-inf...
Odin has poor support for Windows:
This issue is asking Odin to move away from Visual Studio (by which I assume they just mean the MSVC toolset), which is by far a highly preferred environment for C++ programming on Windows[0]. Saying it has poor support for windows because of this is a bit hyperbolic at best and misleading at worst.
Additionally, the issue has a build script using a different compiler and the asker basically said it wasn't good enough for them.
[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/cpp/
According to this survey, Visual Studio is preferred by 24% of respondents, just behind VsCode and CLion. And MSVC is the 3rd most popular compiler, just behing gcc and clang. And keep in mind these results are across all C++ developers, not just windows developers.