NYC on the other hand has the biggest number of jerks per capita I ever seen. (No offence to all nice people from NYC, which there are still plenty.)

Or the argument is that NaNs are not actually the values themselves, but the representations of the facts of different failures, and because we can't compare the facts, we shouldn't compare NaNs? Well, I guess one could say that numbers in general are also such incomplete representations; 2 is 2, I could get 2 by adding one crayon to another crayon, or by taking 10 crayons and removing 8 of them. That doesn't stop me from comparing these 2s.

The same not-number, produced by the same computation, occupying the same memory, is still not equal to itself. It is true that I haven't been able to brush up my knowledge on partial ordering, but isn't being identical is the same as being equal in math?

CPU caches and registers - how exactly are they different from a RAM on a SoC in this regard?

That the game development industry requires a new programming language. So far, the evidence for that is slim. (I mean, metaprogramming with #run is cool, I'm also fed up with cmake. But surely we don't need to throw away all of our C++ tooling for that? Nah, we probably need something more incremental.)

> Calling him "one-hit wonder" simply has no basis in reality. He's at minimum a two-hit wonder.

Okay, I've been corrected. The Witness also sold really well. So he's a two-hit wonder, he clearly had developed a process to make great-selling indie games. I admit that, I admire that. (I only said good things about the guy anyway, why you would call me a "hater" is beyond me.) But now, he deviated from this process. His primary goal now is clearly not to create a good game, but to promote Jai.

> why indeed people would listen to an exceptional guy who has repeatedly demonstrated competency and delivered results, whilst always putting it all on the line?

Because there are limits to everyone's competence. It's like a generalized Peter's principle - being successful in one area doesn't mean you'll succeed in all others that you put your hand in. Even John Carmack didn't really succeed in rockets.

After all, the game dev industry is showbiz. Its ultimate goal is entertainment. JBlow is an entertainer, first and foremost. There are a lot of musicians and actors more influential than JBlow, does that mean I won't be a fool if I listen to their opinions on anything more important than what to eat for breakfast? No, not really. And in the same way, not a lot of people will choose Jai for programming, not in the next 20 years for sure.

> Can you make atleast one hit, not two, just one? Or anything of note?

No, absolutely not. I'm actually the most useless creature of all, good for nothing (other than keeping you engaged, apparently). You got me. And I'm not even trying. I'm not trying to preach for anything, develop new industry approaches or whatever. I'm just humbly making a point: but even if I weren't the most useless, I wouldn't be able to reach the JBlow's heights. Even if I had the same set of skills that JBlow had in 2008. For example, a notable part of the success of Braid was thanks to a contract with Xbox Live Arcade, and where is XLA now? The world has changed. The market has changed. The audience's needs have changed. Becoming an indie dev of such caliber now requires a different set of skills, one that a single person might not even physically have.

At some point, you'll have to admit that (1) it's not only the qualities and the hard work that brought JBlow to where he is, but also sheer luck, and therefore (2) yes, it's a luxury. If you don't believe in (1), well, okay then. But if you agree with (1), from that (2) trivially follows. If it doesn't for you, then it's purely semantics, I guess.

For most people, a computer is just another appliance. They don't consider the security implications that this appliance can leak credit cards and such.

He hasn't. He made a programming language that allows making a sokoban game in 10 years. That's probably not what people need. The industry can make similar games in a course of several months. It doesn't look like a groundbreaking achievement to me. A monumental amount of effort, sure, but the _result_ isn't there.

Plus, _in the past_, he made Braid, in C++, in a relatively practical way. He made money using the industry standards, now he loses money deviating from the industry standards. The question I'm interested in is: why would anyone listen to what the man _says_ if his own preaching makes him lose money?

But okay, you don't want to hear any of that. You keep fixating on the "luxury" part. The reason we talk about JBlow is because he made Braid back in 2008, and it was an awesome game, and it sold well. More importantly, the timing when it released - it was what kicked off the boom of the indie game development back then. He also made The Witness, and although it was also a good game, it was most likely not as groundbreaking as Braid, considering that he chose Braid instead of The Witness for a remaster. And then he complained that it, quote, "sold like dogs**", end of quote. Unfortunately, what was the jewel of the indie game development in 2008, doesn't really excite the audience that much in 2024. The world has moved on.

The music indsutry is well aware of a phenomenon of a "one-hit wonder". If the JBlow's qualities were the only reason he could make Braid and get rich enough to not release anything for a decade, then surely anybody with these qualities could make Braid 2 and do the same thing, correct? Well, nobody can do that. Not even JBlow himself. Not anymore. It's not 2008.

Therefore, yes, it is a luxury.

By providing a result in a way that will be superior to the current status quo. Maybe there will be results, but right now there are none.

I have no idea why you are so invested. I don't care about the man's personality or whatever qualities he has. I look at what he does, and so far, he spent 10 years making a game that you yourself admit won't be even that good.

Of course, you could say that changing the course of the industry not possible in one man's lifetime, so you'll need to gather round more people to get the action going, but this tone actually prevents you from starting a Jai revolution.

In the JBlow case - yes, he made his money using C++. So far, he hasn't shown that using Jai is particularly productive for software engineering.