News

Published September 24, 2026

Time utilities and indexed string iteration in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.28

Measure elapsed time, read Unix timestamps, sleep for milliseconds, and iterate over strings with character indices.

Published September 10, 2026

Simpler variant syntax in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.26

Check and match contextual variant tags without repeating the type, and access payloads with simple member syntax.

Published September 8, 2026

More flexible matches and declarations in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.25

Handle remaining match cases with other, initialize typed locals, use struct field initializer shorthand, and inspect runtime region lifetimes.

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

Exhaustive lookup tables in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.22

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

Published August 18, 2026

Exhaustive enum matches in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.21

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

Published August 9, 2026

Jik v0.1.0-alpha.19: UFCS for variants and more

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

Published August 8, 2026

Jik v0.1.0-alpha.18 released

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

Automatic error propagation in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.17

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

Published August 3, 2026

Jik v0.1.0-alpha.16 released

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

Published July 31, 2026

Jik v0.1.0-alpha.15 released

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

Published July 29, 2026

Jik v0.1.0-alpha.14 released

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

Published July 24, 2026

Region-safe functions in Jik v0.1.0-alpha.13

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

SQLite package now available

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

Published July 21, 2026

Argparse package now available

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

Published July 18, 2026

Raylib 6.0 available in Jik packages repo

Jik now wraps Raylib 6.0.