--- title: jank is off to a great start in 2026 | daily.dev description: jank, a Clojure dialect targeting native code via LLVM/Clang, has reached alpha status and made significant progress in early 2026. Key highlights include: an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jank-is-off-to-a-great-start-in-2026-drxwzno0s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: jank is off to a great start in 2026 | daily.dev og:description: jank, a Clojure dialect targeting native code via LLVM/Clang, has reached alpha status and made significant progress in early 2026. Key highlights include: an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jank-is-off-to-a-great-start-in-2026-drxwzno0s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/drXwZnO0s.png og:image:alt: jank is off to a great start in 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # jank is off to a great start in 2026 **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary jank, a Clojure dialect targeting native code via LLVM/Clang, has reached alpha status and made significant progress in early 2026. Key highlights include: an official jank book for learning the language, resolution of garbage collection bugs, workarounds for LLVM 22 performance regressions (startup time ballooned from 1s to 76s on Linux), a new nREPL server written in jank itself (tested with NeoVim/Conjure and Emacs/CIDER), and major C++ interop improvements including referred globals in ns macros, native loop bindings, unsafe casting, a type/value DSL for complex C++ types, and typed C++ exception catching. Additional improvements include deferred JIT compilation, an updated object model, and multi-threading support via clojure.core/future. Q2 2026 will focus on performance benchmarking and optimization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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