kaprikawn
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Just in case it's passed anyone by (it did me until recently), Jonathon Blow of Braid and The Witness fame is making a new programming language for games called Jai.
It seems like he's been working on it for about five years, and it's a compiled language aimed at being better than C++ for games. Currently it isn't available, but it seems that it's been sent out to a bunch of people recently to beta test. And once it's released it'll be open source and MIT licensed (or otherwise liberally licensed).
There's an old video of the genesis of it here and plenty more since in the playlist (warning, the videos are very long but super informative) :
If you want something a little shorter, someone from CD Projekt Red has done some videos previewing it starting with :
It seems like he's been working on it for about five years, and it's a compiled language aimed at being better than C++ for games. Currently it isn't available, but it seems that it's been sent out to a bunch of people recently to beta test. And once it's released it'll be open source and MIT licensed (or otherwise liberally licensed).
There's an old video of the genesis of it here and plenty more since in the playlist (warning, the videos are very long but super informative) :
If you want something a little shorter, someone from CD Projekt Red has done some videos previewing it starting with :