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3:55Abner Coimbre: A wild Abner appears

5:00insofaras Handmail

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5:00insofaras Handmail

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5:00insofaras Handmail

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5:09AC: The impending release of handmadedev.org and introduction of Jon

5:56Jonathan Blow: Early life, learning to programming BASIC and 6809 assembly at home, and later C during spare time while at University of California, Berkley

9:04JB: First exploratory program on Commodore VIC-20 and the TRS-80 Color Computer

13:33JB: First projects for public use, programming languages and MUDs

16:00AC: Check the audio

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16:00AC: Check the audio

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16:00AC: Check the audio

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17:07JB: Developing personal programming style, driven by technical problems

20:11JB: Thoughts on degradation of compilers – Visual C++ from 20 years ago vs Visual Studio – yet improvement in memory protection

24:07JB: On Visual Studio and the machinations of software deployment getting worse

24:41JB: On the utility of abstraction

30:51JB: Real world example of over abstraction, debugging loading code in the Unreal Engine

32:20AC: Abstraction vs libraries?

33:08JB: Building libraries, with a few words on Zack Simpson¹'s zsounds

37:18JB: Object-oriented Programming, general organisation of code, and garbage collection

44:49JB: On hardware advancement vs non-performant software

50:52JB: Potential areas for improvement in compilers and the conceptualisation of "high level"

56:50AC: Break

57:39afk

1:02:48AC: Return

1:03:44JB: The complexity of Jai vs The Witness

1:08:54JB: Why make the engine of The Witness in-house

1:14:19JB: Product mindset and responsibility

1:20:31JB: Undefined / "system-defined" behaviour

1:24:48AC: Question-time upcoming

1:25:13JB: Happiness with Jai

1:27:51dgmtv Q: j_blow, do you recommend any literature on writing compilers?

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1:27:51dgmtv Q: j_blow, do you recommend any literature on writing compilers?

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1:27:51dgmtv Q: j_blow, do you recommend any literature on writing compilers?

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1:32:29rygorous LCC book! LCC book! LCC book!

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1:32:29rygorous LCC book! LCC book! LCC book!

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1:32:29rygorous LCC book! LCC book! LCC book!

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1:33:03kirenga Q: This audience demographic (16-30) is still learning what took you decades to learn. What's the best thing to focus on?

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1:33:03kirenga Q: This audience demographic (16-30) is still learning what took you decades to learn. What's the best thing to focus on?

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1:33:03kirenga Q: This audience demographic (16-30) is still learning what took you decades to learn. What's the best thing to focus on?

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1:35:35waydenndota Q: What is your opinion on VR, and how it will change the game industry, both from a game design and programming perspective?

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1:35:35waydenndota Q: What is your opinion on VR, and how it will change the game industry, both from a game design and programming perspective?

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1:35:35waydenndota Q: What is your opinion on VR, and how it will change the game industry, both from a game design and programming perspective?

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1:37:58norad91 Q: Do you have a plan (people?) for the backend of your language yet? I assume you'd rather not use LLVM and all the baggage it brings

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1:37:58norad91 Q: Do you have a plan (people?) for the backend of your language yet? I assume you'd rather not use LLVM and all the baggage it brings

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1:37:58norad91 Q: Do you have a plan (people?) for the backend of your language yet? I assume you'd rather not use LLVM and all the baggage it brings

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1:40:42ginger_bill Q: How has the variable affected your programming life?

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1:40:42ginger_bill Q: How has the variable affected your programming life?

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1:40:42ginger_bill Q: How has the variable affected your programming life?

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1:40:54hidekin1982 Q: Will you switch to Vulkan for your next game?

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1:40:54hidekin1982 Q: Will you switch to Vulkan for your next game?

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1:40:54hidekin1982 Q: Will you switch to Vulkan for your next game?

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1:42:13obiwanus Q: What do you think of John Carmack's passion for functional languages?

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1:42:13obiwanus Q: What do you think of John Carmack's passion for functional languages?

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1:42:13obiwanus Q: What do you think of John Carmack's passion for functional languages?

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1:47:00JB: Planned pure functionality in Jai

1:48:09xpansionpak Q: Do you think you're going to keep programming and making games into old age?

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1:48:09xpansionpak Q: Do you think you're going to keep programming and making games into old age?

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1:48:09xpansionpak Q: Do you think you're going to keep programming and making games into old age?

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1:48:47trickneurologist Q: Would you switch development over to Linux if the debugger tools were up to par?

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1:48:47trickneurologist Q: Would you switch development over to Linux if the debugger tools were up to par?

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1:48:47trickneurologist Q: Would you switch development over to Linux if the debugger tools were up to par?

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1:54:44JB: Broken trackpad handling, and taking ownership

1:58:26popcorn0x90 Q: Some of the most used popular languages are owned by big corporations and they spend money and time to get people to use their language. Do you think it will affect people using Jai?

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1:58:26popcorn0x90 Q: Some of the most used popular languages are owned by big corporations and they spend money and time to get people to use their language. Do you think it will affect people using Jai?

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1:58:26popcorn0x90 Q: Some of the most used popular languages are owned by big corporations and they spend money and time to get people to use their language. Do you think it will affect people using Jai?

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2:00:50JB: Advice to become great programmers

2:03:17AC: Thank you to Jon and thoughts for Handmade Dev

2:04:35AC: Parting words with shout-outs to Handmade Dev developers Kelimion and ChronalDragon, moderators insofaras and d7samurai, and the community

2:06:03Season 1 Complete

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