[dmitriid]

> Jon and the authors of uxn commit a common fallacy in that they're chasing a brass ring of in-the-small performance metrics, getting it in the form of particular demonstrations, and then gradually accreting features to it until, most likely, they end up in a similar position to the old tech

If creating full games is an in-the-small performance for a particular demonstration, I can't even imagine what an in-the-big is.

> The actual problem faced by language authors is that they face difficulty in defining quality while also generalizing the problem space

As far as I can tell, jai is exactly that. It's already dropped a few features that looked fine in theory but didn't work for actual development.