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Designer/Programmer of Braid and The Witness. President, Thekla, Inc. Partner in IndieFund. Currently working on good new things.

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    1. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Feb 22

      We're now hiring someone to help work on the compiler and surrounding tools like program visualization and debugging. Help save civilization from the vicious feedback loop of bad software, and accompanying skill deterioration, into which we are getting stuck.

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    2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Feb 22

      I'm looking for a systems-programmer kind of person for this role. Game and graphics experience is helpful but not required. Real experience with complex software written in systems programming languages like C or C++ is required...

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    3. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Feb 22

      Academic or industry experience with compilers may be a negative if you are very much a believer in the way those things are conceptualized and executed, because so much of that stuff is wrong or unnecessary. If you have worked on those things but see that much is done wrong,

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    4. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Feb 22

      that's a positive. DM me and we can discuss / I can give you further details how to apply. Please do not apply if you like web programming, or if you want to implement a garbage collector.

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    5. Francesco‏ @boribombo Mar 12
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow

      I'd like know what's the current state of Jai first citizen memory ownership declarations, as I remember it was described in initial videos/documents about Jai that circulated 2-3 years ago.

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    7. Nora, SciHub Liker‏ @NoraDotCodes Mar 13
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @boribombo

      What's Jai's solution to memory safety, then? Something with overhead? "Just don't fuck it up"? Or something else?

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      Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Mar 13
      Replying to @NoraDotCodes @boribombo

      Memory bugs are to be avoided, but are a small minority of the number of bugs total. Most bugs are just due to complexity. So “memory safety” is kind of a red herring; if you fix a small number of bugs by gaining memory safety, but in doing so increase friction too much, it is

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        2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Mar 13
          Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @NoraDotCodes @boribombo

          easily a net loss, because the other 95% of bugs are harder to deal with. Our solution is to provide customizable metaprogramming techniques you can leverage to help with all 100% of bugs, as you feel is best for your own domain and program.

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        3. Nora, SciHub Liker‏ @NoraDotCodes Mar 13
          Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @boribombo

          Interesting! As someone who works in a highly logic-bug sensitive field (clinical analysis), I've found that having an advanced type system, incl. memory ownership, is almost always a benefit in reducing logic bugs, as well as memory bugs; have you had a different experience?

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