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Very refreshing! What do you mean by no builds though?

• erikpukinskis 8y ago
  Thank you! In the case of JavaScript, it means there's no step where you build your source files into a runnable application and then run it. You just run the application directly. But really this is just a corollary to the "One Language" idea. It means, if you need to build something, build it in the language your app is in, as part of your application logic. Building themselves is part of what applications do, not a thing done to applications. A lot of this is inspired by the Jai programming language, which is a C-like language that lets you configure the compilation and build process in the language itself as part of the application. I wanted to try to take Jonathan Blow's ideas and apply them in JavaScript and then radicalize them.