So I had a slightly unreasonable idea two years ago:

What if I built a programming language without depending on C, LLVM, or any existing toolchain?

The result is Jda — a high-performance systems language bootstrapped from raw x86-64 assembly. The compiler now compiles itself. No GC. No runtime. Single static binaries.

And on real benchmarks, it’s doing things I genuinely didn’t expect.

The numbers that made me double-check