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31d842fca4 fix(test): expect_eq and expect_near compare floats as floats
On a float or double they emitted an i32 compare and clang refused the
IR; they compare as the wider float kind now and a failure prints the
numbers with %g. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 05:06:15 +03:00
f5e7fe4245 fix(runtime): Random.* in any program; value_* called directly brings the value tree
The seeded random numbers lived in the ECS runtime, so a tool or a
program of test blocks got "unknown function rng_range". They are
runtime/native/rng.ludic now, spliced on Random.* or a bare rng_*/seed
call nobody defines, and imported by core.ludic for a game. A bare
value_*/json_* call nothing in the program defines splices the value
tree the way Value.* does. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:59:48 +03:00
a2012a5afe fix(test): a generic function called from a test block works
Test blocks were never type-checked, and the checker is what makes a
generic call real; they are checked like entry now. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:46:08 +03:00
9faaa2094d feat(test): ludic test <dir>, each test block in a process of its own
A directory stands for its *_test.ludic files and the files straight
inside any tests/ under it. The runner answers --list and runs one test
by name, and ludic test runs every block in a child process, so tests
no longer share globals. A failed expect names the file it is written
in (the path the compiler was given) and its line. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:39:55 +03:00
6cfaaf0bf9 feat(lang): open registry - other modules' defs, in an order imports cannot change
A def from another module into a registry that is not open is refused,
and defs go through visibility (the registry exported, its module in the
definer's uses). Index order: the declaring module's entries, then the
other modules' by module name, each in reading order. A registry entry
is emitted as its own file's code, so what it names is seen from its
own module. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:28:34 +03:00
b1ccaf08bd feat(lang): ports - port Clock { ... } in a module, bind Clock { ... } in the app
A port is a record of function values a module calls through
(Clock.now()) without naming the module that answers. A port used and
never bound, a bind missing a required member or naming one the port
lacks, and a second bind are refused; the binder must see the port, and
what it binds is checked from its own file. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:20:12 +03:00
70d05bd504 feat(lang): friend module lab of fishing, data - a friend of the modules it names
A scoped friend sees those modules' private names and only the exports
of every other; a plain friend module still sees everything. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:12:47 +03:00
f4533331e7 feat(lang): module NAME uses A, B - a module reaches only the modules it names
A reference from a module that declares uses into a module it does not
name is refused, exported or not, naming the use and the fix. A module
with no uses clause keeps the old rule; a package's module is always
usable; a friend is not held to it; a cycle in the declared graph is
refused; LUDIC_VIS_REPORT=1 lists the violations as uses: lines. Reseed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 04:06:45 +03:00
ec9a650e65 feat(ui): ui_scale and ui_box, on-submit, zoom (and a length over a length in calc), on-hold
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 03:31:38 +03:00
ae61e99e06 test(ui): a component with no stylesheet reads the theme's :root variables
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:07:05 +03:00
077b38e684 feat(ui): a title shows for the keyboard's focus as well as the pointer
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:06:27 +03:00
d15cc79822 feat(ui): a key field takes a mouse button, and is :capturing while it listens
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:04:47 +03:00
6bd3228990 feat(ui): translate="no", and a title of several lines translated whole or line by line
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:03:49 +03:00
7605a0253c feat(ui): linear-gradient backgrounds, object-fit and aspect-ratio
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:02:49 +03:00
abf45ef9db feat(ui): scroll-top holds a scroll box at an offset, on-scroll, and ui_scroll_set
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:00:21 +03:00
cf8b9e425e feat(ui): nine-slice corners clamped to half the box in each direction, cut on whole pixels
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:59:26 +03:00
12f4ba8431 feat(ui): min(), max() and clamp(); insets as percentages of the containing block
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:53:44 +03:00
355201f094 feat(ui): text-fit, line-height, and ems against the font size an element ends with
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:51:41 +03:00
d163bad406 feat(ui): a popover's align along its side, and within= for the bounds it flips against
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:48:58 +03:00
0aad2294ec feat(ui): pointer events for natives and elements, with capture; on-down and on-up; hits in painting order
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:48:02 +03:00
d2b0413c30 feat(ui): the gamepad moves the focus, presses and goes back; a held direction repeats on the clock
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:42:32 +03:00
a4c7a756f0 feat(ui): a scrollbar held where it was taken, a popover that keeps the mouse, easing that lands
- the scrollbar is .ui-scrollbar with a .ui-thumb, styled by the default sheet or a theme; a press
  on the thumb holds it at the point it was taken and the pointer moves it in proportion, a press on
  the track jumps the thumb's middle there and holds it, and neither presses what is under the bar
  (it used to centre the thumb on the pointer and press the row beneath as well);
- while a popover is up only scroll boxes inside it take the pointer, and a press outside it that
  closes it forgets any press in progress;
- a transition ends exactly on its value (it stopped a rounding error short, at every frame rate).

Tests: ui_popover_mouse, ui_scrollbar, ui_ease (60/120/180/240 Hz).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:39:28 +03:00
9f59000f5b feat(ui): number and key fields, notes, anchored popovers, text-shadow, and pictures as painted
- <input type="number" min max step>: typed digits replace its value (a minus when min allows one,
  a point when step has a fraction), Enter or leaving the field commits them held between min and
  max, the left and right arrows step it.
- <input type="key">: Enter or a click starts it listening and the next key is its value, Tab, the
  arrows and Enter included; Esc stops it listening, Backspace clears it, `shown` names the value,
  and ui_capturing() tells the host to leave its keys alone (through the frame that ended it).
- note="..." under any control's label (.ui-labels > .ui-label + .ui-note); a range's (or number's)
  value with decimals, format="percent" and a unit.
- A popover with `anchor="id"` (the nearest element of that id) or a bare `anchor` (the element
  before it) sits beside it by `placement` (right, left, bottom, top), its margin the gap, opens to
  the other side where it would leave the screen, and is kept on it.
- A tooltip's title splits into lines at a newline or a written \n.
- text-shadow, inherited, drawn sharp under the text.
- ui_opacity(): the group opacity a native's draw is at.
- border-image is drawn as painted with no background colour, tinted by one, and not at all when
  that colour is transparent (it drew a white nine-slice).
- A picture file is drawn untinted, as a browser draws one; an atlas cell (prefix:name) still takes
  the color around it, and an <img> with its own color is tinted by it.
- The render3d backend loads a picture again when its file changes or appears (a failed load was
  kept for ever), and at once after ui_image_reload(path); takes a path with a drive letter (C:/...)
  as a path rather than an atlas; and slices a nine-slice by its texture's own width and height.
- ui_inputs.ludic and ui_look.ludic; LANGUAGE.md and the changeset say all of it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 19:55:20 +03:00
0a7525b125 feat(ui): popovers, tooltips, progress; the render3d backend installs itself; duplicate names caught first
- `popover`: a top layer that keeps the pointer and the keyboard, closed by a press outside or Esc.
- `title` tooltips after half a second's rest, styled by .ui-tooltip.
- `<progress>` and `<meter>`.
- Atlases take rows and number cells, and importing ludic.ui/render3d.ludic is enough to draw with
  render3d.
- The compiler reports two declarations of one name before it type-checks, so a package global
  clashing with a program's reads as that, not as 29 type errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 17:41:02 +03:00
1dad96102a feat(ui): ludic.ui is a UI framework - input, controls, render3d backend, the CSS a game needs
A game no longer writes a host:
- The runtime reads Input itself: focus and keyboard navigation (Tab, arrows, Enter/Space,
  autofocus), the pointer (hover, :active, click on release, drag), and scroll boxes with the
  wheel, a draggable scrollbar, clipping and scroll-into-view.
- HTML's controls are built in (button, checkbox, radio, range, select, text, key capture), made
  of plain parts a stylesheet styles, each reporting with on-change and event.value.
- ludic.ui/render3d.ludic draws with render3d's overlay: textures, named atlases (icon:NAME),
  nine-slice border-image, rounded rects and rings, clipping, and a scale.
- Hooks for the program's language, sounds and clock (ui_translator, ui_sounds, ui_clock).
- ui_dev: hot reload, errors on screen, LUDIC_UI_DUMP.
- CSS:
  - colours as #rgb / #rrggbbaa / rgb() / rgba() / names;
  - border-radius and outline (following the radius), box-shadow, background-image and a tinted
    border-image;
  - group opacity, @keyframes / animation, transition;
  - :focus, :focus-visible and :focus-within.
- HTML mixed content, and boolean attributes.
- render3d gains tex_width / tex_height, and the XML reader keeps text runs in order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 17:26:09 +03:00
20d011f8e9 feat(lang): UI components as files - component Name { ... } beside Name.xml and Name.lss
The compiler turns a component declaration into:
- a record of its props and state;
- a constructor, a props setter, a model and a call;
- a class, registered with ludic.ui at start.

Its template and styles are read from beside it and compiled in, with @import inlined, and a
missing template fails the build.

In the runtime:
- each mounted instance keeps its own props and state, and `set` in a template writes the state;
- styles are scoped to the component;
- class, style and id on a component's tag land on its root, styled by the parent's sheet too;
- ui_reload re-reads a component's files from disk and keeps instances.

The package's own module is now ludic_ui, so a program may call a directory of its own ui.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 16:50:12 +03:00
637d07400e feat(ui): ludic.ui grows toward HTML, CSS and React (Phase 0.U1-U4)
- Natives: ui_native(tag, measure, draw) makes an element the program draws itself; ui_fire
  runs its on-<event> with event.value. input, select and textarea have simple defaults.
- React:
  - keyed <each>, <let>, <provide> context through components, <fragment>;
  - named slots, default props on <component>;
  - on-mount / on-unmount;
  - inline text inside text elements.
- CSS:
  - custom properties and var();
  - position relative/absolute/fixed with insets and z-index;
  - em/rem/vw/vh and @media;
  - wrapping text and ellipsis, overflow;
  - + and ~ combinators, :nth-child(an+b), :checked, :active.
- Developing: errors with file:line, ui_errors(), ui_reload() keeping state, and an
  inspector-style ui_dump.
- view fields infer the type of a literal or a named function's result.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 16:17:25 +03:00
66a2bc2214 feat(lang): L11 views and templates - the UI is markup, not code
A `view Name { field = x; function q(..); on e(..) }` declaration is the one bridge between a
program and its UI: it writes view_<name>() -> UiView, whose model is a Value of every field and
whose call runs a query or an event by name.

ludic.ui is a template runtime:
- HTML-shaped XML screens and components, loaded at run time;
- {expression} bindings, if/else/each, props, slots, per-instance state;
- on-press / onclick actions (event, set, emit);
- component libraries (export="true", <import src as>).

Styling:
- stylesheets in <style> or importable .lss files (@import);
- CSS selectors (#id, .class, [attr=v], descendant and > combinators, :hover, :disabled,
  :first-child, :last-child, :nth-child, :not) weighed by specificity;
- the box model and flex under CSS's property names.

Also:
- default parameters, and positional-then-named calls;
- Value gains a float kind;
- a function shadowing a runtime one is refused;
- an index is evaluated before the slice is read;
- runtime errors name the right file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 15:58:47 +03:00
334469ef61 feat(tools): L10 ludic-fmt enforces a project's style
lint lines in package.ludic - one_statement, max_file_lines, max_function_lines,
max_comment_lines, max_header_lines, paths, baseline - checked by ludic-fmt --check
<files> and ludic-fmt --lint (the project), at the line; a baseline ratchet lets a
rule arrive in a codebase that breaks it (--init-baseline), lowered as it is fixed.
check-impl reads the alias declarations too (it had been blind to every namespace
L6 moved out of the compiler), and eight methods get their pages; a test holds the
formatter to keeping type arguments together (L5).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 14:38:35 +03:00
e543525eb7 feat(lang): L9 resource files - registry ... from
registry NAME of RECORD [as PREFIX] from "file.lres" fills a registry from a data
file of key { field: value } entries, read at compile time with the record as its
schema: every entry is checked like a def, errors name the resource file's line,
nested records and lists of them are bare { } / [{ }] typed by their fields, and
values are expressions in the registry's module. The entries are compiled in, so
nothing parses at start-up and a build that succeeds has validated its resources.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 14:00:20 +03:00
7e7f3ab297 feat(lang): L8 registries by declaration - registry and def
registry NAME of RECORD [as PREFIX] is a global table; def NAME key { ... } in
any file is one entry, collected in source order and filled before any code
runs. Each entry gets an index constant (PREFIX_KEY), the table PREFIX_COUNT,
and a record with a key field gets it filled and a NAME_find(key). A record
literal naming a field its record lacks is now an error everywhere; a global's
initializer is lowered as its own file's code (its errors, and what its module
may see, were whichever statement came last).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 13:34:51 +03:00
b0b0b62bce feat(lang): L7 memory is safe unless it says unsafe
The typed buffers are slices: words/floats/fixeds/doubles/pointers(n) make
zeroed, bounds-checked []int/[]float/... and the type names mean them. buffer(n)
is a []byte, with text_of, Fs.read_bytes/write_bytes and view(xs, start, n).
bytes(), indexing a raw pointer or bytes, free, resize, Memory.*, raw file calls,
data_of and C externs are refused outside unsafe { } / unsafe function, and a
project's own files may write unsafe only with --unsafe; the runtime and packages
are the platform. A slice passed to an extern goes as its data.

What the change found: Sync's atomics on a slice header, words(n) uninitialised,
input's fixed axes in ints, truetype's fixed outlines as ints, skin matrices
typed int, gl_shader's source table made from raw bytes. render3d gets safe
entry points (safe_api.ludic). Rendering is byte-identical; a frame costs the same.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 12:53:27 +03:00
9259808f80 feat(lang): L6 namespaces declared in Ludic - alias
`alias meth(labels) = target` in a namespace block makes Ns.meth a call to
target with those labels (the target's own parameter names without a list). The
engine's 41 table-driven namespaces - 438 methods: Http, Udp, Process, Json,
Value, Screen, Input, Audio, World, Tiled, ... - leave emit_ns_call for
runtime/native/namespaces.ludic, spliced into every program; 532 lines of
compiler go and the seed shrinks by 23k lines of IR. The game's IR is byte
identical. The checker checks an alias call's arguments against its target.
Still built in: the inline namespaces (Math, Text, List, Vector, Color, Time,
Date, ...) and the methods that pick a target by argument type.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 02:40:57 +03:00
6a24b14f0e feat(lang): L5 generic records and functions
property Pool<T> { ... }, function first<T>(xs: []T) -> T, map<T, U> over fn
types; a type writes an instance as Pool<Thing>, nested as deep as needed. The
parser names an instance Pool$Thing and remembers its generic and arguments; the
checker takes the generic declarations out, infers a call's type arguments from
its arguments or its result's declared slot, and makes each instance once as an
ordinary record or function, checked like any other. Errors print Pool<Thing>.
An instance keeps its generic's module and export (L3). ludic-fmt keeps type
arguments together while spacing comparisons and shifts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 02:21:15 +03:00
57b66bdf47 feat(lang): L4 type checker between parse and emit
selfhost/check/ walks every function, the entry, tests, globals' initializers and
@On listeners with real scopes, and refuses mixed number kinds, text and numbers,
two record types, mismatched slices and fn types, wrong argument counts, wrong
returns and wrong push elements - every mix-up at once, each at its line.
LUDIC_CHECK_REPORT=1 lists them by category. pointer stays untyped (L7's).

What it found is fixed: render3d's HDR scan calling the float-bits extern f_lt
with floats; ludic.shooter's right-stick aim overflowing past half a push;
prof.ludic storing longs in []int; extern arguments now coerced to their
parameters. Text-returning runtime functions say string; Assets.ready says bool.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 01:34:49 +03:00
0677aee93f feat(lang): L3 module scope - module, export, friend module
A barrel's 'module NAME' makes its directory a module; a declaration other modules
use says 'export'. Private use from another module is an error naming the module
and where to mark it; 'friend module' sees everything (a test harness); a file in
no module is public and a package keeps its own module. LUDIC_VIS_REPORT=1 lists
every violation instead of stopping, so a codebase can be given its exports first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 00:52:12 +03:00
0c73287e35 feat(lang): functions are values (L2), and render3d takes its scene as callbacks
fn(int, float) -> bool is a type, fn name is any top-level function's value, and a call through
a local, a global, a record field, a slice element, a parameter or a result of a function type
is an indirect call; two function types mix only when equal, a call checks its argument count,
and a value may be null (examples/functions/values.ludic). Job.parallel_for keeps its worker
check.

render3d's scene is registered rather than required by name: r3d_on_draw, r3d_on_casters and
r3d_on_stream_fill (hooks.ludic). The two rendering examples register theirs - and had defined
scene_draw_casters with no parameter while the renderer passed one, which nothing checked.
render3d declares numbers float itself; smooth.ludic is converted to floats and returns when
r3d_init fails instead of running on into a segfault. Noise.* check their argument count (a call
one short crashed the compiler). selfhost-build says why it failed. The migration tool reads a
declared float as evidence. Seed regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 00:27:26 +03:00
dc75a5a5ab feat(lang): a name is defined once, a local once per block, and a result is always returned
L1. Two vars, consts, enums, properties or events of one name in a program are an error naming
both places (functions already were); the first used to win silently. A let / var of a name its
own block already declared is an error (it used to shadow). A function with a result type whose
body can reach its end without a return is an error, asked structurally of the body - a return,
an if/else or a match with a default arm whose every branch ends - rather than handing back
whatever the result slot held. The game, the lab and every package example pass all three;
the lab had one harmless shadow, and the game's split screens had two real bugs of the kind.
examples/rejected/ holds the four refusals, checked by the test runner's new reject_case.
Seed regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 23:55:20 +03:00
3ac0d8d5cb feat(lang): numbers float - a module whose decimal literals are float
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 16:02:11 +03:00
1900f9ca80 fix(compiler): == / != on references is identity; only text compares by content
emit_bin_vals lowered every pointer-typed ==/!= to @lp_str_eq, so two
distinct records compared their bytes up to the first zero byte. Content
compare now needs both sides to be text (string, or the untyped
pointer/ptr runtime code carries text in); other references use
icmp eq ptr, and string vs a non-text reference is a compile error.
Adds selfhost/tests/identity.ludic; both seeds regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 16:13:31 +03:00
e010c2cecc feat(lang): float and double types with ordinary operators
`float` (32-bit) and `double` (64-bit) with + - * / %, comparisons and unary minus.
Decimal literals take their type from context and stay `fixed` elsewhere; int and long
promote implicitly (LUDIC_WARN_FLOAT_PROMOTE=1 lists every promotion). float(), double(),
int(), long() and fixed() convert; floats(n)/doubles(n) buffers; float fields, globals,
constants and parameters; Math.* computes in float for float arguments; string/print
write the shortest round-tripping decimal; float_bits/float_from_bits expose the bits.
@deterministic code may not use floats. The f_* runtime helpers stay as they are.

Editors know the new type words; the JetBrains plugin is 1.5.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 16:13:31 +03:00
f92d7f89c6 feat(tooling): JetBrains IDE support, LSP navigation, barrel imports, package scripts and hooks
- JetBrains plugin 1.4.0: semantic colours (builtin / vendor / own), template strings,
  brace handling, run configurations and a test console, package.ludic and
  package.lock.ludic editing (completion, docs, app preview, colour previews, asset
  navigation), External Libraries for the runtime and packages, doc pages for built-ins
- ludic-lsp: go to definition for imports, document links, hover with inferred types,
  type definition, signature help with parameters, docs from docs/language
- `import "dir"` resolves a barrel `dir/index.ludic`
- package.ludic `entry`, `script` and `hook before|after <command>`; `ludic <script>`,
  `ludic script`, `ludic scripts`
- `ludic test --verbose` and `--test NAME`; the test runner filters by name

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 16:13:31 +03:00
f25289db20 feat(gl): OpenGL 4.1 and the ludic.render3d renderer
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`Gl.*` binds the whole OpenGL 4.1 core API — every entry point of the
platform gl3.h with every GL_* constant, generated by `ludic-dev glgen`
with per-call ABI thunks. Windowed builds get an NSOpenGLContext on the
existing window at Retina resolution; headless builds render into an
offscreen CGL context, so a program that uses Gl.* renders and
screenshots identically under the test harness. It links gl.ll, the
thunks and OpenGL.framework only when used; every other build stays
byte-identical.

packages/ludic.render3d is a physically based renderer written on that
surface: HDRI image-based lighting, GPU-generated terrain with scanned
PBR materials, CDLOD, cascaded shadows, glTF with skinning, instanced
vegetation with impostors, procedural grass, water, SSAO, and an HDR
pipeline with bloom, auto-exposure and ACES.

It also carries this session's work on it: the terrain at half its cost
(10.3 -> 5.4 ms of frame), the streaming hitch that got worse the longer
you played, a resize that emptied the world, and the packaging that lets
a game use the renderer from its own repository — `ludic assets`, the
material manifest shipping with the package, and shader lookup falling
back to the install root. See changes/ for each, with its numbers.

The camping game that drove all of it has moved out to its own
repository, Maroon Lake; examples/rendering/smooth.ludic stays as the
renderer's example here.

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2026-09-10 03:31:12 +03:00
e175619543 refactor(cli)!: split the contributor tool out of the ludic CLI
`ludic help` ended with a section titled "contributing to the toolchain itself",
listing bootstrap, reseed, docs-gen and release tasks. None of that is available
to someone who installed the language — those tasks need the repository — so the
shipped tool was advertising work its user cannot do, in a namespace they have to
read past to find `new` and `run`.

The tasks move to a second program, dev.ludic -> bin/ludic-dev, built from a
checkout and excluded from every release artifact. `ludic` keeps the project and
package commands and nothing else; `ludic dev …` now explains where the tasks
went instead of failing as an unknown command.

What this shook out: the two programs share prelude/build/project/pkg, so the
helpers each had accreted in whichever file first needed them — cc(),
ensure_ludicc, the string functions, title_case, cmd_version — moved to where
both can see them. The argument-shift indirection added for the `dev` namespace
is gone with the namespace, so commands read argv directly again.

`ludic-dev test` asserts the split rather than trusting it: the staged install
must build a project, and `ludic dev build` there must fail while naming
ludic-dev. install.sh keeps building older tags, whose bootstrap goes through
main.ludic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-05 23:15:12 +03:00
aca263642d feat(cli): install in one command, and call the CLI ludic
Getting started meant cloning the repository, bootstrapping a compiler and
learning a task runner called `x`. That is a contributor's workflow handed to
everyone who wants to try the language.

Installing is now one command:

    curl -fsSL https://workshopsoft.pages.workshopsoft.io/ludic/install.sh | sh

install.sh puts a complete toolchain — compiler, CLI, engine runtime, bundled
ludic.* packages, formatter, language server — in ~/.ludic and adds it to PATH.
Prebuilt artifacts are checksum-verified; where a platform has none, or the
release predates this layout, it bootstraps from the compiler's own IR seed with
clang. The docs site publishes the script beside the pages that quote it, so the
page and the script can never come from different releases.

`x` becomes `ludic`, and the surface splits by audience. A user of the language
sees `new`, `run`, `build`, `test`, `add`, `fmt`, `lsp`, `doctor`, `upgrade`;
`ludic new` scaffolds a project that builds and plays as it stands. Everything
the toolchain repo needs moved under `ludic dev` — build, test, reseed,
bootstrap-cfree, docs-gen, release — unchanged apart from the namespace. Those
tasks read arguments one position further along, so dispatch_dev sets a shift
and commands use arg_n()/arg_total() rather than each knowing its own depth.

Release artifacts become complete install roots (bin/ beside runtime/, packages/
and VERSION) rather than bare binaries, which is what the installer unpacks.
`ludic dev test` asserts the whole shape: it stages an install, puts it on PATH
with no LUDIC_HOME, and runs new -> build -> test through it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-05 22:01:52 +03:00
583783449a docs: correct stale references across LANGUAGE, README, COMPILING, CONTRIBUTING
- LANGUAGE.md: real diagnostic format, list literals, Font.load / Ui.*
  (no `reg`/`set_reg`, no `/Handler/Library` typo), `extern function`,
  existing example links, Input.key(); builtins table trimmed to what exists
- COMPILING.md: pipeline names selfhost/ (not compiler/*.c), `program`
  instead of game/module, all thirteen win_* entry points by group
- README.md: the window seam is not "five" functions
- CONTRIBUTING.md: docs are checked with `x docs-gen` / `x docs-check`
- docs/language: kw-ui and fn-ui_build use the namespaced API;
  @ClearColor documents constant expressions; examples/README lists
  operators.ludic

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-05 01:12:26 +03:00
ad548840c7 feat(engine): #90 atlas-aware Sprite component, #91 become from listeners, 0.3.x ergonomics batch
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Closes the two open issues and lands the pending unreleased batch:

- #90: `Sprite { atlas: 1 }` routes esys_sprite through atlas_draw_ex
  (scale/flip/tint), so cell / cell_span / strip ids of any size draw
  through the engine sprite-render system. examples/library/sprite_atlas
  is the pixel-readback regression.
- #91: `become` from an @On(Event) listener / global handler / plain
  function no longer segfaults the compiler; it emits @L_scene_leave()
  (a dispatch on the live scene id) so the leaving scene's on-exit runs.
  UI_* handles are readable from any code (widget table built on first
  use). examples/library/scene_menus covers it.
- fix: a windowed `ludicc -o` build that reaches the audio runtime only
  through the atlas/Assets preload import now links audio.ll +
  AVFoundation (the audio backend link was gated on a game-level
  Audio.* call, so any windowed game declaring Sprite failed to link).
- the hand-written "Unreleased" CHANGELOG section is converted to
  changesets under changes/ so `x release` generates it.
- plus the batch: engine-driven retained UI + UiClicked event, Overlay
  phase, TileSkin tilemap-render system, Key.* constants, Font/Ui/File
  namespaces, Sprite.strip, prefabs, managers, countdown fields,
  enum-typed machines, layer @Queries, ludic.prefs / ludic.dungeon
  packages, Ai.seek pathing, Solids.solid2, cursor confine (mode 3)
  fix, shooter centre-aim fix, reserved-word function diagnostic.

Verified: x test (124/124), x test-tools, check-impl, check-vocabulary,
check-docs, docs-gen + docs-check, bootstrap-cfree (seed is a fixpoint).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 01:36:08 +03:00
872f458cb2 feat(types): tagged-union enums — variant payloads + binding match + exhaustiveness (#56)
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Extend `enum` from named int constants to a tagged union: a variant may
carry a payload (`enum Tile { Empty, Wall, Door(int), Portal(int, int) }`).
Such enums box to a heap record (an i32 tag at offset 0, then one 8-byte
slot per payload position); an all-bare enum keeps its zero-cost compile-
time-ordinal representation, byte-for-byte unchanged (every golden render
and the bootstrap fixpoint still hold).

- Parser: variant payload declarations, stored as N_PARAM kids on the
  variant node.
- Construction: by name — `Door(3)`, `Portal(x, y)`, bare `Empty` — resolved
  ahead of the function-call fallback and boxed with the payloads coerced to
  their declared types.
- match: destructures a tagged scrutinee, switching on the tag and binding
  each arm's payload names in a scoped local frame.
- Checking pass: a tagged `match` must be exhaustive (cover every variant or
  end in `_`), and constructor/pattern arities and binding forms are checked
  — all reported where the scrutinee's type is known.

Adds selfhost/tests/enums.ludic to the regression suite and documents the
feature in LANGUAGE.md and the enum/match pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 03:07:46 +03:00
53bb441f23 feat(input): raw device layer — multi-key held state, analog, mouse, gamepad, touch, full-state replay (#50)
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The raw device layer the input proposal sketched, over the action maps +
record/replay of #7. Beyond one key per frame, gameplay can read:

- Multiple simultaneous held keys: Input.key_down / key_pressed / key_released,
  with clean rising/falling edges (hold left AND jump).
- Analog from keys: Input.axis(neg, pos) and a normalized Input.vector(l,r,u,d)
  (diagonals scaled by 1/sqrt(2)), plus Input.strength(action).
- Mouse: Input.mouse_x/y, mouse_dx/dy (per-frame delta), mouse_down(btn), wheel.
- Gamepads: Input.pad_connected/pad_button/pad_axis (SDL-order buttons, -1..1
  sticks); touch: Input.touch_count/touch_x/touch_y.

The held set is fed by the platform when windowed — cocoa.ll now tracks
keyDown/keyUp into a 256-bit held-key bitset (win_held) and the mouse
buttons/wheel (win_mouse), gated so headless builds DCE the native calls — and
by the Input.press / Input.set_mouse / Input.set_pad / Input.set_touch injection
on every target (Godot-style action injection: replays, AI, network-fed input).
Input.record / replay now snapshot the full per-frame device state (held set +
mouse), extending #7's single-key tape.

Everything is integer and deterministic, so the same inputs reproduce the same
frame on every run and headless. The gamepad/touch native hardware bindings
(GameController.framework / NSTouch) feed the same injected state and are the one
remaining platform-glue follow-up; the software layer, semantics and replay are
complete and driven deterministically today.

Worked example + regression: examples/library/input_device.ludic
(1 1 0 1 0 1 71 -71 5 1 3 1 2 1 0 0 1, injection-driven headless). 23 new
docs/language/input pages. Full suite 78 passed, self-host C-free fixpoint
intact, no golden drift; cocoa.ll assembles and a windowed build links.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 17:14:24 +03:00
1f5e3c1c1a feat(anim): animation ergonomics — named clips, Anim.play/Motion.to, frame events, fluent Tween handles (#48)
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The ergonomic layer over the engine-owned SpriteAnim/Motion systems (#43):

- Named clips: Anim.clip("run", frames, fps, mode) registers a clip by name and
  Anim.play(entity, "run") plays it; Anim.play(entity, fps, frames, mode) sets
  the clip directly. A name-keyed registry in systems.ludic.
- Frame events: Anim.on_frame(entity, frame) arms optional SpriteAnim
  event_frame/event_fired fields; the engine flags the tick the clip first lands
  on that frame, and Anim.fired(entity) reads it — the game reacts, so it stays
  inside the no-runtime-dispatch event model.
- Motion.to(entity, from, to, dur, ease) starts a value tween over the Motion
  component in one call (reflection-ABI writes, resetting the timer).
- Fluent Tween handles (runtime/native/tween.ludic): Tween.to / Tween.chain /
  Tween.delay build a sequenced, disposable handle advanced by a new engine-owned
  system (esys_tween, run each Update tick); Tween.value / Tween.done /
  Tween.parallel / Tween.stop read and control it. The 1-arg Tween.done(handle)
  is disambiguated from the 2-arg pure Tween.done(timer, dur).

Splicing: g_uses_anim_rt pulls in systems.ludic; g_uses_tween_rt pulls in
tween.ludic and inserts esys_tween into the Update phase. All integer and
deterministic, so animation and motion reproduce exactly under replay/lockstep.

Worked example + regression: examples/library/anim_sugar.ludic
(4 8 2 1 0 100 100 0 0 1 20 20 30 0 1). Twelve new docs pages (Anim, the new
Motion namespace, Tween handles). Full suite 77 passed, self-host C-free fixpoint
intact, no golden drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 16:53:16 +03:00