Ideas about a new programming language for games.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN programmers recommend it, and the Jai series that followed, for the game-industry view on replacing C++ and for watching a language being invented.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jonathan Blow

Topic

programming language design for games

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

18

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I strongly encourage anyone interested in programming languages to watch his series about Jai, the language he is creating for his next game. Starts here: [VIDEO] It's not released yet, but watching the videos has massively changed the way I think about programming. The notion …

• It’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but Jonathan Blow’s “Ideas for a programming language about games” and all the subsequent videos have totally revolutionized how I code: [VIDEO] The irony of it is I’m a JavaScript programmer and Blow hates JavaScript, he thinks it’s …

• I am a little disappointed he hasn’t released the source, but I am also sympathetic. He wants to be free to change major things about the language while he’s designing it, and that’s harder if other people are using it. That said, if you want …