Finally, on 27th July, Blow noted the "whole industry is having a hard time" and then, when asked how many of his development team are working on the compiler for programming language Jai, Blow replied: "None, because we can't afford to pay anyone because the sales are bad."

Oof. I don't like Jon Blow, but I do like Braid. Sad to see nobody really cares about it anymore.

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[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes writing the game engine is just more fun than making the game itself, ok...

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago

Yes that can be true, but fun doesn’t pay the bills.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, but read that again, he's making a new language, not a new engine.... To put it in terms of food, using things like Unity is equivalent to eating industrialized food, you have absolutely no control and you get what you get; Using other engines like Unreal or Godot that have open source is like cooking at home, some work but you can get it just the way you like; Building an engine yourself is like having a little farm in your backyard and doing everything from start to finish, it's slow, you'll face problems that have nothing to do with cooking that were handled by the farmers before and at the end you'll get something only slightly better than what you could using store bought products; Building a language from scratch is the personification of the saying "to make an apple pie from scratch first you have to invent the universe".

And you know the worst part? It won't be any faster or better in any mensurable way, large groups of developers spend decades to develop the languages we have today.