Overview

The current release of Jekyll is version 0.21 alpha. This release still has a few issues, but it is close to the point where it can be reasonably used in anger.

Soon we should be releasing version 0.3, which will be a major step forward. Version 0.3 completely removes all annotations from C files, instead using a non-deterministic translation system to reconstruct Jekyll information.

What works

These features are largely complete and stable in the current version:

• Lossless translation between Jekyll and C
• Parametric Polymorphism
• Giving Jekyll types to CPP macros
• Most existing C programs should compile correctly
• Algebraic Datatypes
• Complex initialiser expressions
• Haskell-style type classes
• Generalised function call notation
• Lambda expressions

What half-works

These features work to some extent, but have gaps in their implementation:

• Safety checking