Overview of Jekyll Features

Jekyll has many features found in other high-level language. The list below gives those features that are either implemented, or in the process of being implemented. Other features are likely to be added in due course.

• Lossless translation to and from readable C
• Most C programs are valid Jekyll programs
• All unsafe features must be marked as "unsafe" to avoid a warning
• Haskell-style type-classes
• Type classes (a la Haskell)
• Parametric polymorphism
• Tagged unions
• Lambda expressions and closures
• Safety checking
• Checked stack pointers