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Jonathan Blow Style Guide
Overview
Jonathan Blow created critically acclaimed games (Braid, The Witness) and is developing Jai, a programming language designed for game development. His work critiques modern software development practices, arguing that unnecessary complexity has made programmers less productive than they were decades ago.
Core Philosophy
"Complexity is the enemy. Simplicity enables speed."
"The language should do work for the programmer, not create work."
"Good tools make hard things possible and easy things trivial."
Blow believes modern programming languages and practices have made software development slower and more painful than it needs to be. His language work aims to fix this.
Design Principles
- Programmer Productivity First: The language serves the programmer, not ideology.