Try Jik

A starter Jik workspace for GitHub Codespaces.

This repository is meant to be opened in GitHub Codespaces or another devcontainer-compatible environment. The container installs the Jik compiler, syncs the matching examples/ directory, and configures the official Jik packages automatically.

For the Jik compiler, language source, and releases, see jik-lang/jik.

Try Jik in GitHub Codespaces

After the Codespace starts, run:

jik run examples/hello.jik

You should see the sample program run in the terminal.

scratch/ is the blank canvas for your own code.

examples/ is synced from the Jik release tag configured in .devcontainer/jik-release.env, so the sample programs match the installed compiler. That directory is generated by the container setup and is not checked into this repository.

Official packages are cloned into ~/.local/share/jik-packages, and JIK_PKG_PATH is set to that directory. For example, you can import the TOML package with use "pkg/toml". See https://github.com/jik-lang/jik-packages for more information about packages.

Next, you can try editing scratch/scratch.jik, and:

Translating it to C:

jik tran scratch/scratch.jik

Running it:

jik run scratch/scratch.jik

Building it:

jik build scratch/scratch.jik

To get help:

jik help

Notes

The container installs Jik from the GitHub release version configured in .devcontainer/jik-release.env.

If you clone this repository locally without the devcontainer, jik will not be installed automatically.