When Jeaye Wilkerson started working on creating a new programming language about a decade ago, he sought to build a general-purpose programming language that embraced the interactive, value-oriented nature of Clojure as well as the desire for native compilation and minimal runtimes. That programming language, which he named jank, is now his primary pursuit. Wilkerson quit his job as a software engineer at Electronic Arts (EA) earlier this month to work on jank fulltime. jank aims to be a native...