2026-04-18
The Road to Lykn 0.5.0 — Notes from the Workshop
A conversational retrospective on the design and discovery work behind the v0.5.0 release.
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Release notes, design decisions, and essays from the lykn project.
2026-04-17
How We Planned a Book in Parentheses
From 'maybe Monty Python?' to 37 chapter prompts, 1,576 concept cards, and a Scholarly Shenanigans voice.
2026-04-15
The Guide Conversion That Became a Language Audit
We set out to port our JS guides to lykn. We found three bugs in the language instead.
2026-04-14
DOM Mutation — lykn 0.4.1
set! completes the mutation model. The full story of state in lykn.
2026-04-13
Pure Rust — lykn 0.4.0
No more Deno dependency. Sane equality operators. Keyword-method threading. Fifteen developer guides.
2026-04-13
Building the Safety Net, Part III
The Biome series, the No-Node Boundary, and what we learned building 19 guides for an AI collaborator.
2026-04-05
The Rust Rewrite — lykn 0.3.0
The compiler is rebuilt in Rust, gaining algebraic types, exhaustive pattern matching, threading macros, and cells.
2026-03-28
Macros Land — lykn 0.2.0
Quasiquote, hygiene, and cross-module macro composition arrive one day after launch.
2026-03-28
Building the Safety Net, Part II
Guides 8 through 12: performance, anti-patterns, project structure, documentation, and the Deno series.
2026-03-27
Building the Safety Net
How 1,569 concept cards and 7 authoritative sources became the foundation for writing JavaScript without TypeScript.
2026-03-26
Hello, World — lykn 0.1.0
A Lisp for JavaScript goes from idea to working compiler in three days.
2026-03-26
The Origin of Lykn
From 'what was that Scheme thing?' to shipping a language in two nights.