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Wish Jon Blow would get back out there! He was asked on a recent stream and said he has turned down invites while trying to get Jai pushed out the door.

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I do think that the `SOA` struct modifier keyword is maybe the most interesting thing out of Jai. Other languages would do well to think about adopting a mechanism to support something like it.

My understanding is that it's been moved to a convenience macro and is no longer a syntax-level thing. The original videos where Blow talked about SOA at the language level is very old now, and the language has gone through a lot of changes.

Oh, then the language primer is also out of date.

I really want to learn his methodology to writing software

His methodology is to put his hands on the keyboard, write a function, a struct, make it compile, make it produce the correct output, make it faster, make it use less memory...

Considering how much software he has actually put out... do you?

Check the Data Oriented Design talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Jai has been in development for a decade. I would appreciate if it were finally open-sourced.

Considering the fact that Jon despises open-source you might be waiting a long time.

Why does he despise open-source?

There are many rant videos available online - but in general the core of his software philosophy is based in minimal, clean, extremely optimized code. Open-source rarely results in any of those things. Jon is the last guy wandering in the desert, still devoted to concise code - I love him for it.

I feel like he's barking up the wrong tree, opening up his source code doesn't mean the code will get dirty. He can simply refuse any contributions.

He’s stated that he doesn’t think open source helps produce high quality software and attracts a bunch of people that are less interested in building software and more interested in building policy.

However, he’s stated many times that he will release his language compiler and modules openly when they are ready and that he believes he’ll have to open-source it at some point if he wants broad adoption.

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