Table of contents

  1. Devlog - Fanak - 2
  2. Fanak - The journey to here
  3. What does this bring?
  4. What’s next
  5. Status of AI code
  6. Lastly
Devlog - Fanak - 2 Devlog - Fanak - 2

Devlog - Fanak - 2

03/10/2026 / 3 minutes to read / Tags: Devlog, Fanak

Fanak just had its first release with V0.1 🎉🚀

Fanak - The journey to here

I am thrilled to announce that after a lot of research, code, review, and help from friends, I can now say that Fanak has reached a stable release as a real programming language.
It can be used for small scripts and programs now (even CLI games 👾).

What does this bring?

Well, most of the stuff needed for a small scripting language (Fanak is more than a scripting language, but one of the design goals is to have powerful scripting capabilities).
Alongside what you would expect from a small course in Java or C#, Fanak has strong ADTs with Option, Result, and an effect system established.

Fanak is now working in the browser (via LiveCodes) for quick testing & prototyping.

Fanak doesn’t have interfaces, instead we use typeclasses with a derive decorator for deriving common standard operations instead of rewriting them.

V0.1 brings also a small JSON serializer and deserializer and a basic HTTP client. Again, not a complete backend runtime, but a start step.

honest work

To explore more you can take a look at the documentation site here: docs.

What’s next

We have a lot planned, and a lot more to add to the next releases, but to make a promise I commit to having a working backend runtime and a simple DB connection mechanism/ORM by V0.2.

Status of AI code

This is a bit honest, but getting here wasn’t easy and I must admit I reached out for AI more than I would like, does this mean the compiler is a load of unsalvageable slop? No, definitely not. But, to be honest it’s not the best and I must commit some of my time going forward to refactor the compiler to a state that satisfies my code standards.

Lastly

To all who helped me in this journey, thank you.

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