Jai - interesting programming language

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 01:22:19 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md
>
> Looks like it has some features that D has too, for instance 
> CTFE and default value initialization that can be disabled.
>
> Not that it's a superior language, but I like its 
> fresh/innovative approach.



The problem is that the philosophical underpinnings of the 
language are extremely peculiar:


"Language features like garbage collection and templated data 
streams and dynamic string classes may help the programmer write 
code faster, but they don't help the programmer write faster 
code."

"Blow argues that the increase in productivity and reduction of 
friction when memory-safe mechanisms are absent more than make up 
for the time lost in tracking down errors, especially when good 
programmers tend to produce relatively few errors"

Later:

"Abstractions like RAII, constructors and destructors, 
polymorphism, and exceptions were invented with the intention of 
solving problems that game programmers don’t have, and with the 
result of interfering with the solutions to problems that game 
programmers do have. Jai jettisons these abstractions so that 
programmers can think more about their actual problems - the data 
and their algorithms."