Garnet blog Narrative engineering and release notes for the Garnet language platform. https://garnet-lang.org/blog/feed.xml 2026-05-20T23:00:00Z Island Development Crew Why Garnet exists: the FFI tax I refused to keep paying https://garnet-lang.org/blog/posts/2026-05-20-why-garnet-exists.html 2026-05-20T23:00:00Z 2026-05-20T23:00:00Z The founder's note behind Garnet: a Rust hot path, a Ruby orchestrator, and the FFI tax Garnet was built to avoid. Garnet v0.5: substance over surface https://garnet-lang.org/blog/posts/2026-05-20-garnet-v0-5-substance-over-surface.html 2026-05-20T23:00:00Z 2026-05-20T23:00:00Z Release notes for v0.5.0: six blocking slices, finer readiness accounting, and the research-grade boundary preserved. Garnet v0.4.2, and the case for honest accounting https://garnet-lang.org/blog/2026-05-19-v0-4-2-and-honest-accounting.html 2026-05-19T23:00:00Z 2026-05-19T23:00:00Z Why a readiness number can go down on purpose when the measurement becomes more honest.