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The Joy of Programming in Jai - Part 1: Hello World

The Joy of Programming in Jai - Part 1: Hello World on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2020–2021.

Nuno Afonso

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The first part of a series on programming in Jai, Jonathan Blow's in-development language. It covers compiling, writing hello world and using code from other files.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Jai had no public release, so commenters point to this beta user's videos as a way to see what the language is actually like.

people recommended it
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2020–2021
“One of the beta testers has published some more up to date videos with his language introduction and initial experience”
— rehemiau, Jan 2020, in “The Odin Programming Language”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

viktorcodeJan 2021Recommends

Jai changed quite a bit since then. For more current info check out beta user's impressions (and the language primer) here: ▶ this video (first video in the series)

in “Jai Language Primer (2017)” · View on HN

robaayJul 2020Recommends

You can watch[1] one of the lead programmers from CD Projekt Red joyfully give an overview of where Jai is at now. 1. ▶ this video

in “A Programming Language for Games (2014)” · View on HN

rehemiauJan 2020Recommends

Jonathan Blow's language is the most interesting from these three for me because it will have nice metaprogramming features. The document you linked to seems slightly outdated. One of the beta testers has published some more up to date videos with his language introduction and initial experience: ▶ this video

in “The Odin Programming Language” · View on HN

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Programming language designGame programming & enginesjaijonathan blowgame programminghello worldbeta