Jai programming language

“Jai's metaprogramming features, which are ahead of everything else out there”

“if you are making something that requires low level systems language features then you will probably like Jai”

“from its organizational bones doomed to fail for any outside party”

“connects to multiple machines, handles multiple agents and enables agent to agent communication”

“adopting Jai (or another quality language) as the lingua franca of game development”

“It's easy, but I retain complete control over the contents of the VM.”

“I believe everything you generate statically gets turned into a file by the compiler for debugging purposes”

“Jonathan Blow's language, Jai, which has integrated codegen (AST macros that look like code) + type inference”

“jai itself was hand implemented by a Stanford computer science professor”

“I've been using jai [1] for sandboxing on linux (although I use opencode and local models and not claude code) and I'm pretty satisfied with it.”

“Jai approach is a kitchen sink, from what I saw it is all over the place in terms of features”

“It even makes syntax errors, that too a language looking similar to c.”

“maybe jai is still useful to you for grading programming assignments or running installer scripts”

“jai's -D flag captures the right data; the missing piece is surfacing it ergonomically”

“I wrote the software and the man page, and those are what really matter for security.”

“is simple enough to type, and basically works as well as plain claude so you don't have to think about it”

“jai is more opinionated and requires far less ceremony for the common case”

“spent the past 10 years and almost all of his money trying to build the perfect programming language”

“The Carbon, Zig, and Jai compiler frontends are all written this way.”

“the only modern language I'm aware of that was "co-designed" for efficient compilation and incremental reload is Jai.”

“Jai looks cool but it's far far FAR behind and losing ground.”

“They make an allocator an exposed thing and provide language and standard library support”

“not a lot of people will choose Jai for programming, not in the next 20 years for sure”

“Jai has fans and supporters, because they are able to look past or are not concerned about his personality quirks”

“he's both (1) designed and implemented a new programming language (that has directly addressed most of the issues)”

“Compile times. 1-2 seconds vs the typical build times in a C++/Rust game can be a game changer”

“making programming less tedious, more enjoyable, more safe”

“Jai seems perfectly reasonable for at least the narrow task of making games in an indie studio”

“The performance and API stuff is directly going to help game devs.”

“Blow proved his point by making a full blown programming language where he fixed things he complained about like compilation speed etc.”

“It's barely a drop in the bucket as far as the PL design community goes.”

“He built a language for a very specific task: building games.”

“his focus is on making a simple but powerful language”

“the compiler itself uses the same software methodolgy that he argues for, and it's quite good”

“Jai introduced many ideas that languages like Zig and Odin ended up adopting.”

“It still has lots of limitation. But interesting angle.”

“Check out Jai, apparently if you ask nicely its author will let you use it.”

“faster Zig compile times benefits Jai, Odin and C3 as well, because then THOSE compilers can't afford to slow down either”

“I am hearing a lot of praise from insiders(people in the beta program)”

“Isn't Jai still mostly a C-like, with manual memory management and other archaic rituals?”