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Will Jai be public? From the outside, it seems like the creator is using it to build his own software, but doesn't have that much interest in making it public?
by chubot 2y ago
Will Jai be public? From the outside, it seems like the creator is using it to build his own software, but doesn't have that much interest in making it public? (which is fine, but I was surprised to hear talk of its impending release)
- indulona 2y agoJB had a stream couple of weeks ago where he summarized that three things prevent the language to go public and he is working on them. hopefully next year should all be done.
- jitl 2y agoHe wants to release it once it’s features and stdlib are stable; right now there’s a few things left to change so it’s not ready for release yet.
- alpaca128 2y agoThat may not be a bad idea by itself. With Zig they told people to not use it in production as it's still unstable, but of course people proceeded to use it in production, and now there's an incentive for the developers to avoid too many breaking changes. I don't know if that actually matters, but from what I've seen Jon Blow doesn't seem like the kind of person who wants half the internet to tell him how to do things or listen to complaints about a change he made.
- striking 2y agoIt's already been a decade. Maybe someday it will happen but no sense in holding your breath. From an intellectual curiosity standpoint I don't think it actually helps to discuss Jai because it's not something we can form falsifiable theories about. For anyone not already bought in, not already in Jon's ingroup, it may as well not exist.