News

Updates, demos, and milestones from the Jik project.

Latest update

Published August 23, 2026

More region ergonomics in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.23

Allocate in a function's implicit region with @, return composite literals more naturally, and write diagnostics to standard error.

Published August 19, 2026

Tables provide fixed, compile-time-checked mappings from enum members and variant tags to values.

Published August 18, 2026

match now supports enums and requires every member to be handled exactly once.

Published August 9, 2026

Uniform function-call syntax now works with variants, common collection builtins, and external structs such as file handles.

Published August 8, 2026

This release adds method-like uniform function calls for structs, error propagation for calls without return values, and new path and string helpers.

Published August 4, 2026

Throwing functions can now use x := try f(...) to propagate failures to their callers.

Published August 3, 2026

This release adds profile directives, payloadless variant tags, digit separators, and indexed vector iteration.

Published July 31, 2026

With this release, argparse was moved from the Jik package repository to the Jik standard library.

Published July 29, 2026

This release adds the slicing operator for vectors and strings, and an alternative to using "must" for throwing functions.

Published July 24, 2026

The compiler now proves when functions are region-safe, allowing their calls to use values from different regions without the same-region rule.

Published July 23, 2026

The new sqlite package brings SQLite databases to Jik applications, with bundled native libraries for supported platforms.

Published July 21, 2026

The new argparse package makes it easy to build Jik command-line applications.

Published July 18, 2026

Jik now wraps Raylib 6.0.