Hi HN! I’m Abhirama, and I started Jaithon in 2023 when I was in 8th grade to teach myself how to code in C. Jaithon 1 was really bad, it was all in one file and it was completely an interpreter and it was extremely slow with bugs everywhere. Recently, I have came back to this project with the goal of making the perfect programming language that is not only fast, but it has the optimal syntax & features out of every programming language.

Jaithon has Python features such as comprehensions, f-strings and first-class functions with declared fields, explicit visibility, traits and checked type annotations, along with syntax choices from lua, Java, bash, c++, go, and rust.

The compiler separates lexing, parsing, type checking and bytecode generation. The VM has 107 opcodes along with a JIT compiler to speed stuff up, polymorphic inline caches and a garbage collector.

Jaithon is nearly completely bootstrapped, with the lexer, parser, and bytecode generation built completely within Jaithon itself. The syntax of jaithon code is also easily customizable.

You can build and run it with:

git clone https://github.com/abhiramasonny/jaithon cd jaithon make ./jaithon examples/hello.jai

It would mean a lot if you star the project on my GH as I am trying to reach 15 stars soon :) anyways, lmk if you have any feedback. Currently Jaithon is between Java and C++ for speed (a more detailed benchmark exists within the project by running make benchmark) and I am in the process of optimizing the VM.

Would love to hear yalls thoughts!

- Abhi (abhiramasonny.com)