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Welcome to the Jai Community Library Wiki!

This is the place to learn about Jai. Content will be developed by the community for the community.

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The awesome-jai repository collected resources regarding Jai up to now. This Wiki continues the effort: see page References.

Table of Contents

0. Home
1. Overview
   1. History
   2. Licensing
   3. Current State
   4. Performance
   5. Compiler Internals
   6. Features
   7. What will NOT be in Jai
   8. Comparison with Other Languages
   9. Compiler Videos vs Current State of the Language
2. Getting Started
   1. Running Jai
   2. Hello, World!
   3. #import and #load
   4. Variables, constants, and types
   5. Reserved Keywords and Identifiers
   6. Arrays
   7. Loops and Branching
   8. Functions
   9. Macros
   10. Structures
   11. Unions
   12. Enums
   13. Using on Structs, Unions, and Enums
   14. Types and Type Info
   15. Identifier Backslash
3. Advanced
   1. void Type and return
   2. Operator Overloading
   3. Polymorphism
   4. Context
   5. Modules
   6. Module Parameters
   7. Temporary Storage
   8. Stack Trace
   9. Compiler Directives
   10. Program Entry Point Details
   11. Cache Alignment
   12. Inline Assembly
   13. #bytes and Adding binary data
   14. Deprecated
4. Metaprogramming
   1. Introduction
   2. Directives
   3. Default Metaprogram
   4. Workspaces
   5. Build Options
   6. Compiler Message Loop
   7. Compiler Messages
   8. Notes
   9. Debug and Production Builds
   10. Running Tests
   11. Enforcing House Rules
   12. Generating and Using LLVM Bitcode
   13. Programming LLVM Options
5. Modules and Libraries
   1. Preload
   2. Basic
   3. Array
   4. File
   5. String
   6. Math
   7. GLFW
   8. SIMP
   9. Machine x64
   10. Process
   11. GetRect
   12. Threads
   13. Pool
   14. Hash Table
6. Snippets / Benchmarks
   1. Functions/Macros
   2. Debugging
   3. Metaprogramming
   4. Assembly Language
   5. Concurrency
   6. Function and Struct Polymorphism
   7. Benchmarks
   8. Troubleshooting
7. Philosophy of Jai
   1. Design Philosophy
   2. Thoughts of Jon
   3. Quotations and Interesting Excerpts
   4. Questions and Answers
   5. Future Goals
   6. Temperance
8. References
   1. Community Libraries
   2. Example Code
   3. Other Guides and Documentation
   4. Tooling Ecosystem
   5. Resources