Better branding of -betterC

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 17:57:31 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 31 October 2020 at 17:53:14 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> However, speaking to the original point, Jonathan Blow has a 
> very different philosophy to Walter and Andrei, Jonathan is 
> very games oriented, and Jai targets games development. D's 
> CTFE probably had some influence on Jai (as did Lisp etc as 
> Paulo pointed) out, but in no way did Jonathan think of, or 
> approach, Jai as a cut down D.

Yes, most certainly. I did watch his videos a long time ago. He 
seemed to be very concerned with specific patterns that he feels 
is common in games programming. So Jai might end up having some 
special casing that other languages don't bother with. e.g. 
structs of arrays vs arrays of structs.

But, most Algolish C++-influenced languages are rather similar. 
We are basically talking flavours and runtime differences.




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