The Jai Programming Language and What Can We Learn From It
summary
Jai compiles to C and LLVM IR, stays in private beta since 2014, and targets an 80% solution for game developers. It actually runs arbitrary code at compile time — demos show a Space Invaders clone executing inside the compiler and a build system implemented as compile-time execution. Language-level features include a SOA keyword with fat pointers 128-bit for struct-of-arrays, built-in allocators, and an optional SDL-like standard library.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:30Game dev problems
- 4:58Data Oriented Features
- 8:07Syntactical consistency
- 11:18How does C++ compare to Jai
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