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It’s silly that these threads instantly devolve into weirdly personal socio-ideological debates about the merits of the designer, his personality, the community
by binary132 3y ago
It’s silly that these threads instantly devolve into weirdly personal socio-ideological debates about the merits of the designer, his personality, the community, and his unorthodox approach to the language rather than even a technical discussion. It seems like cloutchasing all the way down.
I also recognize that I am participating in said dynamic.
- MattRix 3y agoHow is criticizing the creator of a project a form of clout chasing? It seems important to know the philosophy of the creator of a project, especially when that project is not yet finished.
- goostavos 3y agoI don't know (and really don't want to know) the philosophies of any of the people who've made most of the things I really like. The artist is different from the product.
- MattRix 3y agoI’m not talking about that kind of philosophy, I mean their development philosophies, the kind of things that would directly impact the directions they take the product in.
- binary132 3y agoI think when people compete to have the snarkiest take on a personality in a social context, it qualifies as low key cloutchasing.
- mariusor 3y agoI think that the only purely technical level complaint I have about the language, something that I haven't seen discussed in the docs but bit me because it worked differently than I expected is that return types are not part of a function's typing. Ie, when doing function polymorphism, functions "a :: (b: s32) -> bool" (a function called "a" that accepts a signed 4byte int and returns a boolean) and "a :: (b: s32) -> s32" (a function called "a" that accepts a signed 4byte int and returns a signed 4byte int) trigger a compilation error when you call one of them even if the type of the lvalue is known (either bool or s32).
- VHRanger 3y agoFor what it's worth, there's no product yet with Jai so that's all there is to talk about.
- anonymoushn 3y agoWhat sort of technical discussion can we have if we cannot evaluate the software?