I did it. On Wednesday, I will hand in my badge and gun, so to speak, and dedicate the rest of 2025 to shipping my programming language, jank. It's been a long time coming, and actually a gradual transition, but how did we get here?The start of jankTen years ago, to the month, I started tinkering with programming language design and compiler development. At that point, I was deep into C++ and my job was focused on building game engines. I wanted to build a language which would allow me to expres...