Jeaye Wilkerson

If you can't make it to the Conj this year, you can still get a FREE livestream ticket here: ti.to/nubank/cloju... That will allow you to watch my talk, as well as every other talk, live, from the comfort of your own home!

There's a Lisp game jam starting October 30th and I'll be participating to write a game in jank! Let's all jump in and produce the first set of jank games. itch.io/jam/autumn-l...

This was a beautiful talk by @felienne.bsky.social. It hits even harder in the Clojure community, given our focus on simplicity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...

Check out the latest goodies in jank land! jank is #clojure and #cpp combined in such a lovely way. jank-lang.org/blog/2026-09...

Here's a first glimpse at C++ context being added to errors. In this case, we're noting the candidates involved in ambiguous overload resolution. Thoughts?

Kyle Cesare cooked up a 4x4 sandbox in jank + #raylib + #box3d. It's adorable!

Did you know jank has a built-in benchmarking library for easy benchmarks with beautiful output? It even checks for common benchmarking mistakes, like debug builds, missing optimization flags, and lazy compilation.

jank's terminal REPL client has been revamped to support completions, syntax highlighting, and multi-line inputs. The jank command will now start up the REPL client by default.

Joseph Ferano whipped up a sand painting app with jank and raylib in a matter of hours. It's beautiful!

jank's getting support for runtime exception stack traces and code snippets. This is some tricky code involving LLVM, the GDB-JIT interface, cpptrace, and some jank-side object file tracking. The result is gorgeous. Check out the stack trace for how we can render Clojure frames.

If you've not yet signed up for #clojure Conj, now's a great time. In case you're unable to make it this year, did you know that there's a free live stream? That's right, you can still catch my talk live, for free! 2026.clojure-conj.org

The mantra that I use for basically all of my software development is Kent Beck's "Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast." First we hack together a solution to solve the problem. Then we iterate to clean up the mess and make it maintainable. Then, as needed, we optimize.

Hey folks! I'm happy to share that I'll be presenting at #clojure Conj 2026. My talk "Would you believe it's jank?" will highlight jank's features, go deep into our world-class C++ interop, our custom build system, and include some impressive demos. I'll see you there!

Based on the recent survey, it's pretty clear how people want to use jank. jank will start an era of #clojure game development.

There's now a Github action to set up jank for Ubuntu and macOS! github.com/marketplace/...

I want to know what to prioritize in order to get jank into your hands. To get there, it'd be really helpful if you filled out this survey about how you want to use jank. forms.gle/MrooqChbKyow...

We have folks embedding jank in Godot now. Seems like it might be time to prioritize making this easy.

I've been working on jank's ability to compile #clojure programs to native executables which don't depend on Clang/LLVM. All functionality is baked in, like Graal native images. It works! They're smaller than native images and startup is instantaneous. 🔥

There's a new optimization post for jank, this time optimizing a pure #clojure ray tracer. Check it out! jank-lang.org/blog/2026-06...

There's a new jank blog post out, showcasing the last two months worth of compiler architecture and optimization work. Check it out! jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05...

For those who prefer Discord over Slack, we now have a jank Discord group: discord.gg/GveYCsyU You're welcome to use Slack, Discord, IRC, or Github to be a part of the jank community. I will continue to be on all of them to welcome you.

📺Heads up that there's now a jankTV channel on YouTube with playlists for each jank talk and also uploads from my Twitch development streams. 📺 www.youtube.com/@jank-tv Subscribe here if you want to see when new jank videos come out.

There's a new update for jank, the native #clojure dialect on LLVM. Check it out! jank-lang.org/blog/2026-03...

Having trouble sticking with your projects? Feeling burned out? Check out my #clojure Conj 2025 talk for a helpful guide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alfq...

There will be a jank presentation at the upcoming macroexpand-deep conference this Saturday! If you'd like to see the crucial first steps of introducing jank into the world of machine learning, be sure to sign up (for free) and check it out. scicloj.github.io/macroexpand-...

Still holding out on your #clojureconj tickets? Don't miss my presentation on jank! www.2025.clojure-conj.org

I'll be live on Twitch for the next couple of hours, hacking on jank's leiningen support! www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

There's a new development update out for jank, the native #clojure dialect. Read up on what's been going on the past couple of months! jank-lang.org/blog/2025-10...

I have a 💰 $1,000 USD 💰bounty on the last issue which is preventing jank from using upstream Clang/LLVM. I've outlined the problem in this ticket and I'm calling anyone interested to help us solve this! RT this to help jank. github.com/jank-lang/ja...

Looking for a new project? Want to help out jank and the #clojure community? Help us build out the clojure-test-suite! Anyone who knows Clojure can do this and the workflow is very easy. Try it out! github.com/jank-lang/cl...

I'll be live on Twitch for the next couple of hours, hacking on jank's leiningen support! www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

Did you know that you can now install jank binaries on Ubuntu 24.04 and 24.10 by using jank's apt PPA? They build continuously from CI. github.com/jank-lang/ja...

Thank you, Nubank, for the Github sponsorship! To me, I gather that Nubank is investing in the future of jank because they clearly care about the future of #clojure and its community. I could not be more appreciative. 🩵

I'm happy to announce that I'll be presenting at Clojure Conj 2025. My talk is entitled: "How to stick with your projects, even when they're janky" We'll cover rewrites, building a community, development practices, avoiding burnout, and, of course, jank itself.

I'm live on Twitch for the next couple of hours, hacking on jank. www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

The first UI has been built in jank, the native Clojure dialect! github.com/kylc/jank-im... This example uses imgui, GLFW, and OpenGL. Kyle Cesare was brave enough to figure this all out using only jank's blog posts as docs. We're getting close!

I've live now, building out Debian package support for jank. Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

I've just built a distributable Arch Linux tarball for jank which can run on a fresh Arch Linux image with a couple of pacman deps installed. We're getting close to easy distro packaging and release binaries. We're getting close to jank's alpha release. 😀

I'm live now, hacking on jank! www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

Live on Twitch, hacking on jank, the native #clojure dialect on LLVM. Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

jank now has a health check, so you can troubleshoot any issues with your setup. This should come in handy as we add packages for Ubuntu, Arch, Nix, Homebrew, and MacPorts.

Live on Twitch, hacking on jank, the native #clojure dialect on LLVM. Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/jeayewilkerson

Here's a new jank development update, showcasing a full quarter's worth of work on seamless C++ interop in #Clojure. Don't miss this one. jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07...

There's a new jank development update showcasing the latest seamless C++ interop features. Check it out! jank-lang.org/blog/2025-06...

Today I turned NeoVim's syntax feature off (`syntax off`). Turns out it's no longer needed, with treesitter. Everything still works well and, in fact, some visual highlighting issues are gone. If you're using treesitter and you don't use `syntax off`, both are running.

Call your mom.

Do you want to be a compiler hacker? Want to use advanced C++ techniques in practice? Want to learn more about how #clojure works? I'm bringing on a fourth mentee to help work on jank. Reach out here if you're interested! scicloj.github.io/docs/communi...

Wake up, babe, there's a new jank post out showcasing some badass seamless C++ interop. #clojure + #cpp == jank jank-lang.org/blog/2025-05...

C++ value lookup. Automatic conversions to jank objects. C++ constructor calls, overload matching, and automatic conversions from jank objects. This is the start of seamless interop in jank. 💪

Happy to share I'll be sponsored by Clojurists Together for $9k this quarter, to work on seamless C++ interop for jank, the native #clojure dialect. Hang tight and let me cook. This is going to be great.