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jank-lang.org/blog

jank is a Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with native C++ interop.

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26 from 8 Dec 2022 to 4 Sep 2026
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now and then (4 in the last year)
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project news
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2026 4

  1. jank reimagines C++ errors and gets an official native package repo
  2. Tracing rays with jank
  3. jank now has its own custom IR
  4. jank is off to a great start in 2026

2025 7

  1. The jank community has stepped up!
  2. jank is C++
  3. The next phase of jank's C++ interop
  4. Starting on seamless C++ interop in jank
  5. jank has been renamed to GRADY
  6. Can jank beat Clojure's error reporting?
  7. I quit my job to work on my programming language

2024 7

  1. jank is now running on LLVM IR
  2. jank development update - Moving to LLVM IR
  3. jank development update - Multimethods!
  4. jank development update - New projects!
  5. jank development update - Lazy sequences!
  6. jank development update - Syntax quoting!
  7. jank development update - Dynamic bindings and more!

2023 7

  1. jank's new persistent string is fast
  2. jank development update - Load all the modules!
  3. jank development update - Module loading
  4. jank development update - Object model results
  5. jank development update - A faster object model
  6. jank development update - Optimizing a ray tracer
  7. jank development update - Optimizing sequences

2022 1

  1. jank development update - Lots of new changes