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[chrisb78]

Hey everyone,

I started a YouTube channel in autumn, about all sorts of creative endeavors and the individuals pursuing them.

Here's the video of Jonathan Blow discussion program language and game design - recorded in Seattle in October 2017:

[Superb Joe]

i wanted to post something funny but this seems like a really insightful high effort thing you've done here. congratulations.

[Tanner]

Joe is right, this is a really impressive project. I'm very excited for your Dwarf Fortress video now.

[ProgramGamer]

I edited the op so that the video would show correctly. Youtube embedding is weird around here, sorry about that.

[michaelplzno]

Blow is fascinating and impressive and so is The Witness to be sure. I personally seek to do different things with my games than Blow though. I think Blow is focused on "greatness" and making these monumental things like a new language to replace c++ but I personally am more interested in making fun stuff, so his talks always irk me a bit.

He does provide a sense that game making is the path to greatness so I'm sure that's a large part of why a lot of players and devs like his talks but they never quite gel with me because I want to do different stuff. I don't care if everyone calls my stuff cheesy or silly as long as the players are having fun ya know? Took me a long time to start feeling that way because a lot of people hate cheesy fun but alas...

[Lares Yamoir]

Thanks for the video. Watching it right now

[alvarop]

This channel is so good!

[ViktorTheBoar]

I finally took time to listen to some of these (mostly Dwarf Fortress talks) and it's lovely. Very inspirational while you draw, do spring cleaning or playing some grindy mmo

[Mark Mayers]

I came across this a while ago when you first started your channel, and this is some fantastic stuff. Keep up the good work.

[s0]

An unironic super joe post is the highest honor one can receive on this forum. Cherish it.

[Pfotegeist]

I'm mostly interested in the notion that the games developed would run faster.  As a programmer/creative writer I'm so obsessed with perfecting my own work it's hard to discover clean premade code from big companies that can't break.  Anything that'd speed up new code and remove reliance on 'lower level code' is great.

He mentions going back to text in the first video. Well, the abstract variables are important.  I think a better ludic interface that's ergonomic is key to why keyboard is very functional, and GUI is great for moving objects (less for abstract programming).  Programming's not really cut and paste, like some beginners would say.  I'll be waiting for a mind reading device.

There's another related video talking about how slow c++ actually is, "Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers".

[J-Snake]

There's another related video talking about how slow c++ actually is

It is not slow, only the compilation and certain workarounds to get "nice things" if you aren't happy with what c++ has to offer.

[Pumpkinteractive]

There's another related video talking about how slow c++ actually is, "Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers".

I'm not a big fan of his games but I definitely want to try jai now after watching this, I come from web development and can relate to it, like the pain it always is to relearn and inherit the entire ecosystem whenever there is a new way to render form fields or to do it the right way now with the new schrodinger.js framework, gosh I wish I could be a gamedev fulltime

[J-Snake]

I'm not a big fan of his games but I definitely want to try jai now after watching this

You won't be able to for a while except you are in the group of close testers. Keep in mind, it is not a committee language but the work of one individual. It is safe to assume that his language will have bits and pieces which will suit his own specific mindset, but not necessarily yours.