#jai#jonathanblow#implicitcontext
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Programming languagesSystems programmingLanguage design and type systemsCompilers and interpretersMemory management
Jonathan Blow demonstrates the implicit context feature in the Jai programming language compiler, showing how it handles allocators without explicit parameter passing.
This is a more-formal demo of the compiler, as opposed to some of the random livestreams that happen now and again. The URL for the code to follow along is: tinyurl.com/l9sw25d Sorry about the blurriness, but hey, if you download the sources they will be very crisp!What people say. Engineers highlight this as an elegant solution to the context and allocator passing problem in systems programming languages.
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