Roadmap
JOEL’s development roadmap outlines the planned features and improvements across multiple phases.
Current Status
Version: 0.1.0
Current Phase: Phase 2 (Compilation & Types) ✅
Phase 1: Core Language ✅
Status: Complete
- ✅ Lexer - Tokenizes JOEL source code
- ✅ Parser - Builds AST from tokens
- ✅ VM/Interpreter - Executes
[Interpreted]mode - ✅ Basic syntax support (variables, functions, control flow)
- ✅ Built-in functions (
print,range) - ✅ Documentation site with Nextra
- ✅ CLI tool (
joelcommand) - ✅ Example programs
Phase 2: Compilation & Types ✅
Status: Complete
- ✅ LLVM backend infrastructure for
[Compiled]mode - ✅ WASM target compilation infrastructure
- ✅ Static type checking
- ✅ Type inference improvements
- ✅ Ownership system (Rust-like borrow checker)
- ✅ Error messages and diagnostics
- ✅ Standard library core modules
Documentation:
Phase 3: Specialized Targets ✅
Status: Complete
Blockchain Targets
- EVM bytecode generation for smart contracts
- Solana WASM target (BPF generation)
- Cosmos SDK target (WASM contracts)
- Polkadot/Substrate target (WASM runtime modules)
Native & Web Targets
- LLVM IR generation
- WASM binary generation
- Native optimization support (—optimize flag)
- Dead code elimination
- Constant folding
- Inlining hints
- Cross-compilation support (—arch flag)
- Debug symbols and source maps (—debug flag)
Documentation: CLI Reference
Mobile Targets
- iOS target (LLVM IR for iOS frameworks)
- Android target (LLVM IR for Android libraries)
- React Native integration
Phase 4: Advanced Features
Status: Planned
- UI compiler (
joelui) - React/React Native output - Container ops (
joelctl) - Docker/K8s integration - Flow runtime (
flow) - Workflow execution - Actor system implementation
- Async/await runtime
- Pattern matching improvements
Documentation:
Phase 5: Ecosystem & Tooling
Status: Planned
- Package manager (
joelpkg) - Language Server Protocol (LSP)
- IDE plugins (VSCode, etc.)
- Debugger and profiler
- Testing framework
Documentation:
Phase 6: Database Programming
Status: Planned
- SQL as first-class datatype
- Embedded SQL engine (DuckDB-like)
- Type-safe SQL queries
- Database connectivity
- Advanced SQL features
- SQL toolchain (
joelsql) - CLI for SQL operations
Documentation:
Phase 7: Quantum Programming
Status: Planned
- Quantum circuit compilation
- Quantum backends (Qiskit, Cirq, Q#)
- Hybrid classical-quantum algorithms
Documentation: Quantum Programming Guide (coming soon)
Phase 7: Quantum Programming
Status: Planned
- Quantum circuit compilation
- Quantum backends (Qiskit, Cirq, Q#)
- Hybrid classical-quantum algorithms
Documentation:
- joelquantum Toolchain
- Quantum Programming Guide (coming soon)
Phase 8: Performance & Optimization
Status: Planned
- Advanced compiler optimizations
- JIT compilation
- SIMD support
- GPU acceleration
Documentation:
Phase 9: Security & Safety
Status: Planned
- Static analysis
- Sandboxing
- Capability system
- Cryptographic primitives
Documentation:
Phase 10: Interoperability
Status: Planned
- C FFI
- Rust FFI
- Python interop
- JavaScript interop
Documentation:
Phase 11: Distributed Systems
Status: Planned
- Distributed actors
- Consensus algorithms
- Distributed storage
- Service mesh
Documentation:
Phase 12: AI/ML Integration
Status: Planned
- AI/ML module
- Model formats
- GPU acceleration
- LLM integration
Documentation:
Phase 13: Real-time & Streaming
Status: Planned
- Event streams
- Time-series processing
- Complex event processing
- WebSocket support
- Message queues
Documentation:
Phase 14: Quantum Programming (Qubit-Level)
Status: Planned
- Qubit datatype and operations
- Quantum circuit construction
- Quantum measurement and observables
- Quantum algorithms (QFT, Grover’s, Shor’s)
- Quantum error correction
- Quantum simulation and emulation
- Quantum hardware integration
- Hybrid quantum-classical programming
Documentation:
Contributing
Want to help? Check out our contributing guide and pick a phase to work on!