[dalailambda]

One of the major reasons that would influence a language like Jai is that once you do that, even if your generated C/++ is fairly optimal, you still have to go through another slower compiler. Jai's compiler is fairly optimised for speed and I think that would be an unacceptable trade off.

On the target platform side, a video game tends to have a fairly well known set of platforms it will run on (new PC's, PS4, Xbox), so I think this is an acceptable trade off.

And just a final note, the generated C/++ would be very unreadable anyway, unless it was a direct transpiler, at which point you lose a lot of the benefits of having a new language.