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Technical articles, language design insights, and updates from the Vais project.

The Self-Hosting Journey: 50,000 Lines of Vais Compiling Itself

How we bootstrapped the Vais compiler -- from first lexer token to 50K LOC self-hosting with 21/21 clang success. The challenges, breakthroughs, and lessons learned.

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Vais Performance: Compilation Speed and Runtime Benchmarks

How Vais achieves 800K lines/sec compilation throughput, near-C runtime performance, and what the numbers mean compared to Rust, Go, and C.

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The Design Philosophy Behind Single-Character Keywords

Why Vais uses F, S, E, I, L, M instead of function, struct, enum, if, loop, match. A deep dive into token efficiency, AI readability, and language design trade-offs.

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Why Vais? An AI-Optimized Systems Language

Exploring the design decisions behind Vais: single-character keywords, the @ operator, expression-oriented syntax, and why token efficiency matters in the age of AI code generation.

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