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What do you think about JAI

Torsten · 2018-07-03T14:54:06

Since 2015 i am following jonathan blow´s stream about making a programming language for games called "JAI". I think it has a lot of potential and it may suit even non-game related programs. The syntax is very clean and the language/compiler has great features like: - Compile time execution - Support for SOA in structures - "defer" for releasing memory when out of scope (in reverse order) - No need for any external make-tools, because using compile time execution the application can build itself - "Using" keyword for accessing members from a instance directly (Similar to the "with" keyword from object pascal, but with more flexibility and without the need for enclosing scope) - No need for any header files - Good scope handling - Built-in type information for almost any type for run and compile time - Code generation - Support for optional type inference, even for member fields - Manually uninitialized (--- keyword) - No garbage collection, full control over memory - Very fast compile time - Polymorphism: ad-hoc, parametric and subtyping (Subtyping is still experimental) + stuff i have seen before - Multiple return values (automatic tuples) - Many more Unfortunatly its not out yet, but its on a good way. What do you think about that? I personally want it right now - so i can drop C/C++ entirely. If you want more details, see this inofficial documentation: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md

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Started by Finalspace September 20, 2017 08:48 AM

20 comments, last by Promit 5 years, 12 months ago

Promit

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July 03, 2018 02:54 PM

I googled Jai to see what kind of write-ups are currently available about it. First hit is a third party GitHub page with:

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As of this writing there are no public compilers for Jai, so all information in this text is collated from his YouTube videos. Therefore nothing in this post is official. There may be information more up to date than what is available on this page. That said, I believe everything in this post to be up to date as of this writing.

Are you kidding me? Why are we even talking about this when there's no spec, no compiler, nothing except some unofficial write-ups fabricated from a freaking YouTube series?

At least most of the other languages du jour are functioning pieces of technology I can poke and prod. This is insanity. So to answer the OP's question, I think it's fine if you're enjoying JB's videos and talks about this, but to actually discuss it seriously doesn't even begin to make sense to me.