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Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by 4v0v on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:52PM (#33722343)
It's false, he never said that it was only for games.
Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:29PM (#33722814)
But the decisions made are going to be for the benefit of game development first, and everything else secondarily.
Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by _aavaa_ on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:53PM (#33723113)
Either the word "only" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence, or you're simply wrong [0].

Yes you could program anything in the language, just like you could programming anything in any language. But he's designing the language for video game development. The whole reason he's making it is for videos specifically, and he's been very explicit that he does believe that a language should not try to be designed for use in every application.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1...

Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by Kranar on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:56PM (#33723157)
I mean this is a little pedantic. It's true he never said that only games are able to use his language as if it were some kind of law, but he did say that his language is being designed to address issues that video game developers face and that was his main, and almost exclusively his only concern.

If other domains benefit from that, he's not going to actively bar them from using his language, but he also won't give them much consideration.

Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by 4v0v on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:47PM (#33724322)
It's just false, i'm in the closed beta and there are a lot of people that use it for other things than games. When they find a bug or have a suggestion he give them the same consideration as anyone.
Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by _aavaa_ on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:07PM (#33724541)
What people use it for and what it's meant for are two different things.