There's just a couple more compiler features I wanted to get merged, but everything should be in order for folks to follow the book and try jank out.
Thanks for your work on jank! I hope the Alpha brings you lots of new users, useful bug reports, and some contributors. :)
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> I mentioned that a native Clojure is the first step toward my dream language. Indeed, it doesn't stop there. jank will always be a Clojure dialect, but it will also optionally support more. Features like gradual typing (maybe linear typing), more explicit memory management, value-based errors, and stronger pattern matching, to name a few, improve upon Clojure. This will allow another axis of control, where some parts of the program can remain entirely dynamic and garbage collected while others are thoroughly controlled and better optimized. That’s exactly the control I want when programming.
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I will be exploring optional static typing modes for jank in the future, a la Carp. That will not be this year, though.
makemethrowaway•3h ago