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

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.

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Why HN readers recommended 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.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Nuno Afonso
Topic
jai programming language
Format
tutorial
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2021

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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  • 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 The document you linked to seems slightly outdated.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 …

    rehemiau on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In The Odin Programming Language

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

    robaay on Hacker News · 2020-07
    In A Programming Language for Games (2014)

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

    viktorcode on Hacker News · 2021-01
    In Jai Language Primer (2017)

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