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…own language. It was back in the SerenityOS days, before the browser forked into its own project. https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by LeFantome · 2026-02-23 · in Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

…fork. Rust was evaluated and rejectd early-on. They even created their own language at one point. https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by LeFantome · 2026-02-23 · in Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

…SerenityOS and jakt, for example: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activit... https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity If Cloudflare wants to defend the future of the web, maybe they could also throw a…

comment by shadytrees · 2025-09-22 · in Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

…one implementation) would be a good indication of being serious about language support. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by jll29 · 2024-08-11 · in Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

…on Jakt [0] and if you look at Jakt you will clearly see it is heavily influenced by Swift. [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by open592 · 2024-08-10 · in Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

…nothing compared to when it was first announced. Seems essentially dead to me at least. [0]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by hypeatei · 2024-08-10 · in Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

Jakt[0] was being developped by Andreas at some point. It seems stall for now. [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by skywal_l · 2024-07-02 · in Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

…language that looks both clean and elegant AND it's a memory-safe systems programming language. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/

comment by stefanos82 · 2024-07-01 · in Welcome to Ladybird

…(although the decision to move on from NIH[1] is a sign that this might be changing). [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

comment by skywal_l · 2024-06-21 · in Ladybird browser spreads its wings

…under the SerenityOS umbrella? Will LadyBird continue to use C++? The blog post doesn't mention it. https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by frankjr · 2024-06-03 · in I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

…is Bar(x) else { println("not matched") return -1 as! c_int } println("hello there: {}", x) [1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt [2]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/blob/main/samples/guard/i...

comment by twiss · 2023-10-20 · in Useless Ruby sugar: Pattern matching

…ps://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird I also like their Jakt programming language: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt Though I'm more enthusiastic about Redox (doing it in Rust): https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox…

comment by cies · 2023-09-27 · in Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity

…time. Perhaps they're searching for a new challenge and saw this as a good moment to get out? [1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by jeroenhd · 2023-05-27 · in I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

It's very opinionated and SerenityOS-focused, but the language Jakt ( https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt ) transpiles to C++, has memory safety and some very neat ideas for readability.

comment by rjh29 · 2023-02-28 · in Will Carbon Replace C++?

…after switching to a self-hosted compiler). [0]: https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html [1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by jeroenhd · 2023-02-26 · in Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?

I really like Jakt: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by cies · 2022-12-12 · in The Zig programming language has been ported to SerenityOS

…Rust code, but earlier ones are a goldmine. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling [1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by guilherme-puida · 2022-10-25 · in Ask HN: Where to watch skilled developers writing code and explaining ideas?

…Quite the opposite. The serenityOS people are implementing their own programming language, [jakt]( https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt ), which currently compiles to C++, and they'll move the codebase progressively to it as they go. I…

comment by c-cube · 2022-10-17 · in Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)

…their Jakt[1] language will make it much easier to contribute than in arcane reality of C++. [1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by cies · 2022-10-10 · in The 4th Year of SerenityOS

I found this language recently that also compiles to CPPv1: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt Really nice feature set.

comment by cies · 2022-09-17 · in Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax

…* Carbon (https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang) * Val (https://www.val-lang.dev/) * Jakt (https://github.com/serenityos/jakt) * now Cppfront... Is everything alright within ANSI / ISO committee?

comment by stefanos82 · 2022-09-17 · in Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax

…language, that strike a balance between performance and simplicity. And it has proper sum-types! https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by cies · 2022-09-12 · in Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

…last video shows "Abstracting the event loop so Ladybird can be fast & responsive on Linux" [3] [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt#usage [2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird [3] https://youtu.be/S8lXroxngYo

comment by mythz · 2022-09-10 · in Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014)

…in the "Jaktness Monster" series which goes through creating a NES Emulator from scratch [3]. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt [2] https://youtu.be/RXp2T_iAhWc [3] https://youtu.be/47svsnd7HIQ

comment by mythz · 2022-09-10 · in Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014)

I used to agree, but things like Jakt have an even better version: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt Notable differences: 1. param:value is used, but convention is param:value not the gratuitous Engrish verbingParamProposition:value ObjC…

comment by tl · 2022-08-13 · in Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C

…compilation becoming an option down the line. It's far from stable but it's worth looking at: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by jeroenhd · 2022-06-23 · in Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20

I have high hopes for Jakt: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

comment by TheCipster · 2022-06-03 · in Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming