Could D be used by Jonathan Blow rather jai language?

[Ethan]

On Wednesday, 18 November 2020 at 16:13:20 UTC, Jack wrote:
> So I find out jonathan Blow is devloping his own programming 
> language, because "C++ is wild mess". I know pretty much 
> nothing about game dev and I was wondering if D could be used 
> in the way Jonathan Blow would like to? Anyone experienced on 
> game dev stuff could answer this? as far I know, the jai's 
> compiler is not ready yet.Maybe let him know about D language, 
> assuming it fits its game needs, would be interesting?

So, outside of Manu, I may very well be the only person that has 
spoken to Jonathan at length about D and Jai. He has in fact been 
an audience member for one of my D talks.

He's a pure engineer. And his coding style is still very heavily 
entrenched in the C way of doing things. End result is that he's 
writing a language to fill a gap that he sees. It's a better C 
(fancy that), with some features that we'd have to write library 
solutions for to get equivalent code.

I've shipped D code in a console game, but there's still things 
that need to be done before we can move D in to widespread 
adoption. Others are way more actively working on these things 
than I am. I wouldn't expect Jonathan to switch gears on this. 
And you know what? That's healthy. One of the things I pointed 
out in my DConf 2017 talk was that his perspective is "I just 
want to write code" and whenever I try to do heavy compile time 
code in D (be it templates or CTFE) I'm constantly battling the 
compiler and the language to get it to do what I want it to do. 
We've still got a ways to go to hit that painless level of 
language use, and there's someone out there that's actively 
trying to achieve that with their own language. It's a goal we 
should strive for.

(That's a sneaky way of saying "type functions when?")