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Four Years of Jai (2024)

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phtrivier ◴[] No.43731404[source]
I sincerely dread that by the time jblow releases jai, people will just have moved on to zig or rust, and that it will just become irrelevant.

I'm sure jblow is having the same fears, and I hope to be wrong.

Still, it's fun to be remembering the first few videos about "hey, I have those ideas for a language". Great that he could afford to work on it.

Sometimes, mandalas are what we need.

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SalmoShalazar ◴[] No.43731884[source]
Why do you dread this? It’s entirely possible that Jai is not good enough to compete, no?
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1. phtrivier ◴[] No.43731987[source]
That would be the "best case" scenario (an inferior language beaten by better ones.)

But, no, the hubris of the language creator, whose arrogance is probably close to a few nano-Dijkstras, makes it entirely possible that he prefers _not_ releasing a superior language, out of spite for the untermenschen that would "desecrate" it by writing web servers inside it.

So I'm pretty convinced now that he will just never release it except to a couple of happy fews, and then he will die of cardio vascular diseases because he spent too much time sitting in a chair streaming nonsense, and the world will have missed an opportunity.

Then again, I'm just sad.

As John Stewart said: "on the bright side, I'm told that at some point the sun will turn supernova, and we'll all die."