Jonathan Blow on Why He is Creating JAI

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Snip taken from "Interview with Jonathan Blow at LambdaConf 2024"

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Everyone who creates a programming language says the same exact thing: "I looked around, I didn't see any language that had things I needed.. so I created shit". None of the languages address solution to and I mean problems in programming.

TonyStark
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Jai is cool, but C and C++ will not go away. I write in C despite some of its problems, because everything has a C API, for Jai I would need to write bindings (and know C for writing them anyway).

theevilcottonball
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I wish I could experience his language, but it'll be a few years still.

jeezusjr
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Like Jonathan says, this is how we get new languages and tools.

But I still don't know what it is C++ pain point.

gruntaxeman
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1. thanks for linking to original video
2. jon's blow-ing up in size and should cut back on sweets

darthtesla
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I trust Jonathan. I find him to be reasonable even when he is frustrated [but i would encourage him not to be annoyed, he should expect to be annoyed by stuff and laugh about it]. 😺

People and Tech over complicating things. So it is an opportunity to someone like Jonathan.

Maybe Epic is looking for a language like yours instead of Verse or you can upgrade Verse. Or you can go even higher goals.

lDeath
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I wish he'd stop talking about it and just release the language and the reference compiler.

matjam
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Everyone in the comments misses the point. He's not doing this to make money. He's not doing it to replace other languages. He's not even doing it to make better games.
He's doing it because he wants to and he can.

ExpensivePizza
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Jonathan is in the Messiah phase now. Thinking he has ideas that nobody ever had before.

avwie
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These problems he complains about have already been solved by Java. Fast compile times. Good performance. Easy to read syntax. There is a few good open source game engine written in it already. You can write code and test it out in a few seconds.

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Another language starting, inevitably having the same limitations than other languages, because everything nowadays is just another syntax on top of LLVM. Why not contribute on something that already exists ? Or just use plain old C when you really want to have full controll ?

maximenadeau
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You know I woke up this morning and had the craziest thought. How much better things would be with just one more programming language...

When is it going to stop? We're north of hundreds of languages at this point.

It's like Linux, let's make a new distro everyday... cause we don't have enough.

What you end up with is a disparate landscape where nothing works with anything else.

KMegahertz