Jonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated

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#LambdaConf2025 took place in Estes Park Colorado this past May 12th and 13th. UPCOMING EVENT: The Ultimate Coder Casting call: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X6xqghfFNU3QRgbcrzgYPYTfBZtGEU0VvRG0zkrYpy8/edit Learn about the sponsors that made it happen: Ziverge Transformative Tech for Modern Challenges https://www.ziverge.com/ Urbit Foundation Leave the Internet Behind https://urbit.org/ Golem Cloud Deploy secure AI apps that run reliably https://www.golem.cloud/ Platonic Systems Solving your toughest software problems https://platonic.systems/ Abstract for this talk: The 'jai' programming language was designed in a very reality-based way to solve specific problems that we had when developing very complex software (in our case, video games). We'll demo some features of the language and explain why design decisions were made the way they were.