[rehemiau]

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 The document you linked to seems slightly outdated.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 initial experience: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i1vbvikDiI8&index=1&list=PLhEuCy...

[gingerBill]

Personally, I agree with Jon in that he is not too bothered about being the "winner" with regarding to his language. He wants a tool that can help him actually solve problems he has. And he wants to make sure that his tool is good before releasing it to the public. Releasing a product before it is done is can of worms in itself, not to mention the problems related to open source software itself. So it is entirely respectable for why Jon has not been as opened up his language to the public yet.

I created Odin for the very same reason that I wanted a tool that made me more productive and helped me solve the problems that I actually have. Even if Odin only benefited myself, I would class that as a success, but it has been helping so many people create amazing things.

[andyroid]

> Releasing a product before it is done is can of worms in itself

Perhaps, but a programming language which is released when “done” is essentially dead on arrival. I’d guess the people who created amazing things with Odin helped the language move forward, right? Nothing wrong with keeping something to oneself, but promising for a long time to move something into an open source model with no set date.. I’ve rarely seen that end well. Hope I’m proved wrong though!

[7thaccount]

Is there a link to success stories?

[rishav_sharan]

well Jai is probably the least interesting language for me as the others actually exist. When Jai ever gets released, only then I can see all its warts and glories.

[jjuel]

I mean it obviously exists. He livestreams coding on the language and in the language. Sure very few people can actually use it right now, but existence is not in question.

[beagle3]

It’s been a while since I was following Jai descriptions, but IIRC, Nim exists today and has all the meta programming features Jai is supposed to - and to a large extent so does D.

[Cyph0n]

Jai has no GC though, which is critical in game dev.

[olah_1]

I like Jai's `use` keyword.

Fun fact: Odin has this exact same thing with `using`. https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#using-statement

[hota_mazi]

Kotlin also has it as "apply":

    Windows().apply {
      width = 100
      height = 200
    }

Now, I can't help but see the following kind of code:

    val someStructure = ...
    someStructure.x = ...
    someStructure.y = ...
    someStructure.name = ...

as an immediate language code smell