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Four Years of Jai (2024)

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166 points xixixao | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 23:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.367s | source
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lifthrasiir ◴[18 Apr 25 09:58 UTC] No.43726526[source]▶
The biggest "crime" of Jai is that it (soft-)launched like an open source programming language and didn't actually become open source shortly. There are so many programming languages that did go through the "beta" period and still remain open sourced all the time. Open source doesn't imply open governance, and most such languages are still evolved almost solely with original authors' judgements. It is fine for Jai to remain closed of course, but there is no practical reason for Jai to remain closed to this day. The resulting confusion is large enough to dismiss Jai at this stage.
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1. chriscbr ◴[18 Apr 25 18:41 UTC] No.43730755[source]▶
Same story with the Mojo language, unfortunately.

To me this raises the question of whether this is a growing trend, or whether it's simply that languages staying closed source tends to be a death sentence for them in the long term.