[duped]

> You can watch his Twitch streams and see what he does and how he uses the language.

I can watch coworkers blaze through Common Lisp in emacs, that doesn't mean it's the Next Big Thing in developer experience and performance.

The privacy of development has made Jai less than compelling, for a lot of us I think. I'd be personally more excited if I could use it and poke around at it, rather than see someone tinker on video streams. I get why he's doing things that way, but it's just hard to feel like it's going to be meaningful for anyone but him so long as it's kept hidden away.

[benreesman]

I appreciate that the Jai closed beta is atypical for compilers these days, and plucks some strings about the bad old days of proprietary build chains.

With that said, it’s on record that an open source release is planned, and whether or not it works, it’s not insane to run something past 100 early adopters before putting it on GitHub.