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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.

If you are a Jai beta user and want to contribute, ask for an invite in the Jai Secret Beta Discord! Only members of the Jai-beta have writing access.

The awesome-jai repository collected resources regarding Jai up to now. This Wiki will continue the effort.

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. Types and Type Info
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. Deprecated
4. Metaprogramming
   1. Introduction
   2. Directives
   3. Default Metaprogram
   4. Workspaces
   5. Build Options
   6. Compiler Message Loop
   7. Compiler Messages
   8. Debug and Production Builds
   9. Running Tests
   10. Enforcing House Rules
   11. Generating and Using LLVM Bitcode
5. Modules and Libraries
   1. Preload
   2. Basic
   3. Array
   4. File
   5. String
   6. Time
   7. Math
   8. GLFW
   9. SIMP
   10. Machine x64
   11. Process
   12. Threads
6. Snippets
   1. println
   2. Swap Macro
   3. Resizable Arrays with Initial Size
   4. Pool Memory
   5. Measure Code Performance
   6. Blocking Console Input
   7. Abstracting Loops
   8. Ad-hoc Print Debugging
   9. Bytecode Debugger
   10. Unrolling Loops
   11. Using defer to Close Files
   12. Adding Import Path
   13. Relative Pointer-Based Strings
   14. Bake Structs
   15. Check if Variable on Stack
   16. Tagged Union
   17. BLSR Reset Lowest Set Bit
   18. Reversing 64-bits (asm)
   19. Intel Intrinsic SIMD
   20. Go-Style Channels
   21. for_each_member
   22. Interface/Trait
   23. Writing & Loading dynamic libraries
   24. OO with Macros
   25. Parent Type from Inner
   26. Optional
   27. Broadcaster
   28. Macro Pointer Cast
7. References
   1. Community Libraries
   2. Example Code
   3. Other Guides and Documentation
   4. Tooling Ecosystem
   5. Resources