JadeLang

Jade — a write once, run anywhere programming language.
Ruby's elegance + Go's simplicity + Kotlin's type safety. Curly braces. Semicolons. No excuses.

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what's in this repo

jscc/       — the Jade compiler (.jsc → .joc)
jvk/        — the Jade Virtual Kernel (runs .joc files)
jpkg/       — the Jade package manager
jade_stdlib/ — the stdlib

quick start

# compile a .jsc file
jscc src/main.jsc out/main.joc

# run it
jvk out/main.joc

# or use jpkg
python3 jpkg/jpkg.py init
python3 jpkg/jpkg.py build
python3 jpkg/jpkg.py run

the language

package com.yourname.hello;

import jade.stdlib.io;

@entry
def main(args []str) i32 {
    val name    = "Jade";
    val version = "0.1.0-alpha";
    io.println("hello from #{name} v#{version}!");
    return 0;
}

building jscc

cd jscc
mkdir build && cd build
meson setup ..
ninja

requires: g++, meson, ninja, llvm-18-dev

building jvk

cd jvk
mkdir build && cd build
meson setup ..
ninja

requires: same as jscc

.joc format

every compiled Jade program is a .joc file — a fat binary containing:

• native machine code slice(s) for specific architectures
• LLVM bitcode fallback (JIT compiled on any arch with no native slice)

jscc main.jsc                          # host native + bytecode (default)
jscc main.jsc --target=aarch64-linux   # add ARM64 slice
jscc main.jsc --bytecode-only          # portable only
jscc main.jsc --no-bytecode            # native only

package registry

packages live at Fundiman/jade-pkgs

python3 jpkg/jpkg.py search http
python3 jpkg/jpkg.py add jade.stdlib.http
python3 jpkg/jpkg.py publish

publishing opens a PR to Fundiman/jade-pkgs automatically.

fun fact

JadeLang was written IN ONLY 3 hours and 12 minutes! I started at 10:02 AM and finished at 1:14 PM.

license

LGPL v3.0 — use Jade freely in your own projects.
modifications to Jade itself must be contributed back.

Copyright (c) 2026 Fundiman