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Jai is a perfect example of how fashion dictates programming language popularity. The language isn't even released yet and people are mentioning it as the next
by dom96 8y ago
Jai is a perfect example of how fashion dictates programming language popularity. The language isn't even released yet and people are mentioning it as the next great thing. If it wasn't for Jonathan Blow's successful indie games nobody would bat an eye.
That being said, I've got huge respect for the guy. I asked him about Nim in one of his streams and his reply was very courteous and reasonable.
- JepZ 8y agoI kind of wonder why everybody is so negative about me posting JAI here. I mean, yes the compiler isn't released yet, but that's why I wrote 'upcoming'. You write about the 'next great thing', but I was merely talking about 'a better C++ for game development', which narrows it down to a very specific use-case. And I don't know what is wrong about if someone has had some success by building games to also look at the tools he uses for building those? Besides that, looking at the few examples I have seen I didn't find the languages elegant, but it seems like it got inspired by some other modern languages like Go (e.g., no parentheses for if statements) while explicitly rejecting other ideas like the GC.