Hi, author of jaque here. I've been working on some other things for a little while, but I'll be getting back to jaque soon. It's quite out of date and needs to be brought up to 1.0 and cleaned up a bit before I start grousing about the stack issues I was running into on the mailing list, but when I last was working on it I was running into issues with Graal when trying to increase the java stack size. Deep but bounded head recursion is quite common in nock, and I seem to recall I needed about 8 megs of stack space (I just passed -Xss 8m or something on the command line) and Graal slowed waaaay down. That's where I left it.
Not at all! Thanks for the advice, and I'll take you up on the invitation to come chat before too long.