The Joy Programming Language

A language made for fun and to learn more about compilers

Note

This is only tested to compile and run with Odin dev-2026-02

Syntax

use joy.debug;

decl main = fn() {
	debug.println("Hello, World!");
};

Progress

• Lexing
• Parsing (multithreaded)
• Typechecking (multithreaded)
• Custom IR (multithreaded)
• Custom backend (Sea of Nodes) (in-progress)
• Metaprogramming (maybe. this might be out of the scope of the language)