Blow however was probably talking about the (strong) statically typed nature of the language. I'm not so sure. Blow's language, Jai, is a strong, statically typed language. He specifically says that he doesn't want to annotate his code with lifetimes on day 1, but layer those checks in later.. EDIT: Apparently, Jonathan Blow has a setup on his Twitter account to automatically delete his tweets after two weeks. Keep this in mind for extra emphasis to archive any of his tweets you link to. In light of this, here's an archive of a subsequent tweet thread from Blow that OP's archive doesn't cover.
Unsurprisingly, Jonathan Blow hates achievements and your distracted lifestyle Kill Screen
Watch Jonathan Blow on The Witness Release Date GameLife WIRED
Jonathan Blow on programming as an art YouTube
Jonathan Blow says C++ 'is a weird mess,' so he's making his own alternative VideoGamer
Jonathan Blow habla de por qué The Witness es una exclusiva de Sony
Jonathan Blow (Person) Giant Bomb
Jonathan Blow (Person) Giant Bomb
Jonathan Blow talks good design — for video games, team structure, and beyond
Jonathan Blow How Thekla is moving beyond The Witness VentureBeat
Jonathan Blow on future of video game industry YouTube
Storytime with Braid & The Witness Creator Jonathan Blow at PAX East YouTube
Jonathan Blow YouTube
State of Play Jonathan Blow REMASTERED Full Interview YouTube
Jonathan Blow at Game Access Conference '19 Brno, Czech Republic
Jonathan Blow "C++ is a weird mess"
【中文字幕】2013年GameSpot采访Jonathan Blow（Break Room Interviews Jonathan Blow）_哔哩哔哩_bilibili
Jonathan Blow Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
Jonathan Blow on being a PS4 indie game dev making The Witness YouTube
Jonathan Blow at Game Access Conference '19 Brno, Czech Republic
Jonathan Blow on Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs YouTube
Jonathan Blow. I think that's right. Part of it comes from the fact that I wanted this game to be about, well, it's about a lot of things. But I wanted it to be about what's in the puzzles and..
