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		zehaeva 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Game design is simple Isn't this basically what Jonathan Blow is trying to do with his "new" programming language, Jai?

Razengan 44 days ago [–]

Isn't Jai still mostly a C-like, with manual memory management and other archaic rituals?

See, SQL for example don't care about the hardware or the internals of the database it runs on, why couldn't we have something like that for gameplay?

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