[TheMagicHorsey]

I feel like a lot of people go after Jai because of what Jon Blow says about XYZ political issue. Jai seems perfectly reasonable for at least the narrow task of making games in an indie studio. The macro capabilities might be terrifying in a large enterprise, but if you're handrolling all your own code and don't have to worry about a software supply chain, who cares?

[krapp]

I go after Jai because I think the problems it is purported to solve are better and more readily solved with existing frameworks, libraries and engines, and I think the programming language itself is entirely too low a level for these things.

You don't need to design a specific language to implement structs of arrays, you can just... do that.

[adamrezich]

SoA has not been a compiler-level feature in years. It has long since been a userspace module.

[sarchertech]

Jai hasn’t even had the whole array of structs to struct of arrays thing in years.

Also speeding up compilation time really does require a new language or at least a new compiler.

And why would you “go after” any language. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. The only thing going after it is going to do is to drive up the engagement metrics and make it more popular.