Besides the fact that Jai’s lead developer (Johnathan Blow) is a transphobic and racist asshole—
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Jai is also, in my opinion, a really ugly language. I’d not develop a game in it personally. I don’t see Jai code being all that maintainable for me at scale.
Right now it is in private beta; You have to send him a heartfelt email demonstrating you are a based programmer and only then he'll ship you an exe of the compiler.
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Programming language neurodivergents think that once they invent the "perfect" language, everyone will drop what they are doing and switch over. History of science classes should be mandatory.
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Funnily, 90% of the languages they invent are just the same old stuff we already have, just with some new frills. Imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, and array programming languages have all been around for decades.
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The final redpill is that most languages are just wrappers around LLVM and most standard libraries are just wrappers around libc/the system dlls on Windows.
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It's all syntactic sugar for assembly![:marseyschizotwitch: :marseyschizotwitch:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyschizotwitch.webp)
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JavaScript exists. People need to stop trying to invent wheels.
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