Keywords: module uses friend export internal numbers unsafe mut port bind action
reducer registry of as from def open alias component prop view (structure),
shows lasts then loads (scenes), system (ecs), dispatch (control), true false
null (operators). Attributes: @Ref @OneOf @Range @Unit @Asset @Color, @Node /
@Clip / @Material, @Tint @Derived, @Text / @Multiline, @Key, @AppendOnly /
@ByKey, @PerMap / @Chunked, @frame @max, @owns / @creates / @releases,
@deterministic @alloc_ok. Each is in tools/docgen/inventory.json; every fence
that is not marked skip parses (ludicc --fmt). annot-clearcolor's token loses its
quotes, which no reader strips.
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The encoder appends into RtJsonState's buffer (grown only past the biggest document yet): ints and
Q16.16 fixeds written as digits in place, floats through string() and freed. Json.encode copies the
answer out once; Json.write_file hands the buffer to Fs.write_text (.tmp + rename) and keeps nothing.
json_saves.ludic: exact text, the file equals encode, parse round-trips, 1000 saves grow 0; clean
under MallocScribble. json_quote (the + builder) is gone.
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Vk.heap_bytes pulled the Vk module - and on lang/uifree the GL window path - into a plain program,
which then failed to link (_cgl_offscreen, lgl_GetError). Os.heap_bytes is malloc_zone_statistics
through a weak reference (0 where there is none, and on Windows). Reseeded. Docs for it and for
Json.free / Json.free_all.
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Every pool thread runs the worker at once with the same states, so a mut state in a worker was a
race nothing reported. check_worker_ref refuses a worker whose leading states include a mut one;
threads.ludic's total moves into the words the worker is handed, under the mutex. The seeds are
regenerated (ludic-dev reseed). ludic-dev test 305 passed, selfhost-test 33 passed.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Text.to_float reads a leading decimal number (strtod), the twin of Text.to_int, for data files.
A return with a value in a function that returns nothing now says so where it is, instead of
reaching clang as 'store void'. Seed regenerated.
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The platform gave these keys no code at all, so a game's rebinding screen could not take
one and nothing said why. Windows asked the active layout what they type and got nothing
(w_vk_char answers 0 for a key with no character); macOS let them fall through to
charactersIgnoringModifiers, which reports NSF1FunctionKey and its neighbours at 0xF704
and up - outside the 256-bit held set either way.
w_keyval and ev_keyval now name them, with the same codes on both: 132-143 F1-F12,
144-149 Home / End / PageUp / PageDown / Insert / Delete, 150 Caps Lock, 152-161 the
numpad digits, 162-166 its * + - . and /. The numpad's Enter is Enter.
Key.F1, Key.Home, Key.Numpad0 and the rest fold at compile time, and Input.key_label
names them without asking the layout - a key that types nothing is called the same thing
on every layout.
examples/library/input_typeless_keys.ludic covers the codes, the names, the held set and
the press edge; 150 passed in ludic-dev test, 33 in selfhost-test.
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Process.spawn/poll/kill/free - non-blocking child processes with no shell: posix_spawn on
macOS (process.ll), CreateProcessW with MSVC-quoted arguments and no console window on
Windows (process_win.ll), linked only when a program uses Process.*.
Http.save_to streams a response body into a file (NSURLSession with a run-time delegate
class on macOS, the WinHTTP read loop on Windows); Http.received / Http.expected report
progress while it is pending. Freeing a pending request cancels it and parks the slot
until the worker has finished.
App.window_hide / App.window_show take the game's window off the screen and back without
closing it; the run goes on while hidden. Docs, examples, tests and a changeset.
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Udp.open/port/send/recv/from_ip/from_port/close/resolve/local_ip/ip/ip_text, native
BSD sockets (udp.ll) and Winsock (udp_win.ll, -lws2_32), linked only when a program
uses Udp.*; example, docs and tests.
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`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.
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- 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
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The Windows runtime keyed the held set by the character MapVirtualKeyA gave a
virtual key, so a game's WASD belonged to whatever the active layout put there,
and with an input method on every letter arrived as VK_PROCESSKEY. The typing
block is now read from the scancode (the arrows, numpad and F-keys still by
virtual key); macOS reads keyCode the same way. Input.key_label(key) names a key
in the player's own layout (Windows) or as its US character elsewhere.
Verified on Windows with SendInput into a live window: VK_Z carrying W's scancode
holds 'w', VK_PROCESSKEY carrying A's holds 'a', Caps Lock changes nothing.
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- `fn name` names a top-level function as a value (E_FNREF, lowers to @fn_<name>); the worker
entry point for Job.parallel_for, which checks it takes (int, pointer-like) and returns void.
- runtime/native/threads.ll (pthreads) and threads_win.ll (Win32 SRWLOCK/CONDITION_VARIABLE): a
pool of one worker per core but one, parked between batches; every thread claims chunks by
compare-and-swap. Linked only into programs that use Job/Promise/Sync, by `ludicc -o`,
`ludic build` and the test suite's build helper.
- Sync.* is real: native mutexes, atomics as cmpxchg retry loops (neither clang takes atomicrw,
the PC's rejects seq_consistent), mutex-guarded channels, Sync.cpu_count from the OS.
- spawn/despawn on a pool thread stop the program with a located panic.
- examples/library/threads.ludic and its test; docs for fn, Job.parallel_for, Job.is_worker.
- Reseeded (bootstrap-cfree: out.ll == seed.ll). 141/141 on macOS; jobs, threads and the guard
pass on Windows from the reseeded Windows seed.
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ludic-dev vkgen reads vk.xml into runtime/native/vk_api.ludic (constants, every struct's
<Struct>_sizeof and <Struct>_<field> offsets, one extern per command) and vk_thunks.ll.
Every size and offset was compiled against the SDK's C headers; `ludic-dev test` checks the
tracked files against the registry wherever the Vulkan SDK is installed.
vk_win.ll (vulkan-1.dll) and vk_mac.ll (libvulkan.1.dylib, MoltenVK) open the loader at run
time, so a program built with Vk.* starts on a machine without Vulkan. ludicc and ludic
build link both for any program that uses Vk.*. The seeds are regenerated for the new
compiler.
vk_probe reports what a machine's Vulkan can do; vk_compute dispatches a Slang compute
shader and reads the picture back, clean under the validation layer on an RTX 3070 Ti and
on an M4 Pro through MoltenVK.
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`ludic bundle` builds an AppIcon.icns and macOS reads it out of the .app, so a
shipped game has an icon. `ludic build` produces a bare executable: no bundle, no
CFBundleIconFile, and so no icon at all - macOS draws the generic green "exec"
tile. That is the build a developer runs every day, which is why "the game has no
icon" can be true for months while the bundle is perfect. It was here: the .app's
icns validated against iconutil, the plist was right, the signature was right,
and NSWorkspace rendered the artwork - and the binary beside it still had the
exec tile.
App.set_icon(path) takes the bytes through lp_pak_open, so a packed path and a
loose one both work and this does not repeat Audio.load's trick of taking a
filesystem path only. NSData copies them, so the buffer goes straight back. A
missing or undecodable image leaves the existing icon alone rather than clearing
it; a bundled app is unaffected; headless links no AppKit and compiles it away.
Verified the Cocoa sequence against an ObjC twin doing the same message sends:
before, a bare binary's applicationIconImage is the generic 128x128 tile; after,
it is the 1024x1024 artwork.
Backend change, so selfhost/ludicc.seed.ll is reseeded: the bootstrap fixpoint
and the C-free rebuild from the seed both pass.
They were the macOS layout on every platform - the comment above them even said
"macOS/BSD layout" - so a game built on Linux wrote its saves to
~/Library/Application Support, a directory that means nothing there. Naming the
right directory is the entire reason a program calls these instead of joining a
path itself.
macOS save/config ~/Library/Application Support/<app>
cache ~/Library/Caches/<app>
Linux save $XDG_DATA_HOME or ~/.local/share/<app>
config $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config/<app>
cache $XDG_CACHE_HOME or ~/.cache/<app>
macOS is unchanged to the byte, deliberately. save_dir and config_dir stay the
same directory there: Apple's home for a config file that is not an
NSUserDefaults plist is Application Support too, and a shipped game's settings
must not move out from under it. On Linux XDG separates the two and so does this.
An XDG variable that is set but EMPTY falls back to the default, which is what
the spec says and what an exported-but-unset variable looks like from a shell.
uname is read once and remembered rather than per call, because save_dir is
called on every save.
Verified on both branches. macOS by running it; the Linux branch by building the
probe's IR with the cached platform flag pinned, which exercises the emitted XDG
code exactly - unset, set, and set-but-empty all resolve as the spec says. The
suite's own case asserts the HOST's convention, so a macOS box covers the Apple
branch and CI covers XDG.
This is a backend change, so selfhost/ludicc.seed.ll is reseeded with it: the
bootstrap fixpoint (gen2 == gen3) and the C-free rebuild from the seed both pass.
Three things a game could not say, each of which had been worked around.
Audio.play_at(id, gain:, pitch:, pan:) fires a one-shot with its own gain,
pitch and stereo position. Audio.volume and Audio.pitch are global - they are
the options screen - so a game placing a sound in the world was fighting them,
and distance attenuation was simply not expressible. The backend already took
volume and rate per call; this adds setPan: alongside them and stops routing
through the master state.
ludic.render3d gains outline_model(model, mat, width, r, g, b): a rim around
something that is not an Actor. The outline pass walked the actor list and
stopped, so instanced scatter - a forest - could not be highlighted at all. It
is a queue flushed by the same pass, which is what gets the depth test right
when the caller does not control pass order.
And terrain_coast(cx, cz, margin, fall), the other way to make an island:
the sea around the survey's own edge rather than cut out of the middle of it.
terrain_island measures a radius from a centre, which drowns two thirds of a
real survey to make an island of the rest; this measures inward from the
boundary, so everything the data covers stays land and the coast is where the
data runs out. Both modes gained a strand - the last few metres of height
either side of the water line compressed, which stretches a cliff plunge out
into beach and shallows.
132 regression tests and the self-host fixpoints pass.
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`ludic build` produces a program. Double-clicked it opens a Terminal window, it
wears the generic executable icon, it calls itself whatever the file is called,
and it carries none of its assets. `ludic bundle` produces an application.
Everything it needs is in package.ludic, so the command takes no arguments: an
Info.plist and PkgInfo from `app` lines, an .icns built by sips and iconutil at
all ten sizes macOS asks for from a single source PNG, the asset pack in
Contents/Resources, and an ad-hoc signature - which is not optional on Apple
silicon, where an unsigned binary is killed rather than warned about. The bundle
identifier falls back to the package path reversed, so a project that never
thinks about it still gets a defensible one instead of two apps sharing a key
Launch Services hangs the Dock, saved state and permissions off.
A bundled game is moved to ~/Library/Application Support/<name> before main,
because Finder starts a .app with its working directory at "/" where no save
could ever be written. Reads come out of the pack, writes land somewhere real
and per-user, and the game's save code needs no change and no platform
knowledge.
The splash is the other half of looking like an application. A game that loads
165 MB spends a visible moment doing it with nothing on screen, which from the
outside is indistinguishable from a launch that failed. splash_show puts a
borderless window up from the same constructor that mounts the pack - before
main, so it appears while the process is still starting rather than after the
slow part it exists to cover - and reads the artwork out of the pack like any
other asset. It turns the run loop enough times to be mapped and composited
there and then; once composited the backing store survives a busy main thread,
so it stays up for the whole load.
Nothing hides it automatically. Only the game knows when its first real frame is
ready, and a splash that vanishes before that leaves the same black gap it was
covering, so the game calls App.splash_hide(). Headless there is no splash and
the call lowers to nothing.
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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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`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.
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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.
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- `[a, b, c]` list literals (E_LIST → emit_list); static_type learns
slice-element, `new T`, list, string and literal kinds
- `x op= y` lowers through the same path as `x = x op y` (emit_bin_vals):
fixed `*=`/`/=` use the Q16.16 64-bit paths, string `+=` concatenates,
int→long widens; unary `-` keeps a fixed operand's type (arith_ty)
- one `unescape()` table for "strings", 'chars' and `interpolation`;
`'\''`, `'\\'`, `'\"'` no longer read as 0; unterminated char literals
and unexpected characters are errors instead of silently skipped
- every diagnostic is `file:line: error: msg` (g_parse_file / g_err_file,
Node.file + Node.line set by node()); tok_desc() in expectation errors;
duplicate `function` names and unknown `phase` names are reported in
source terms (phase_id used to default unknown phases to Overlay)
- interpolation holes skip braces inside string literals
- hand-IR preludes move from the user `@fn_` prefix to `@lp_` so a user
`is_ws` / `str_eq` / `path_join` no longer collides at link time
- `@ClearColor(expr)` accepts any constant expression; `Os.pid()` added
(docs page + inventory); `str_starts()` in support/str
- main.ludic: `else if` flag ladder, char literals, stale script comments
- examples/lang/operators.ludic covers all of the above; os.ludic covers
Os.pid; docs pages for Os.pid and the Overlay phase; ten changesets
- reseeded: selfhost/ludicc.seed.ll is the new compiler's own fixpoint
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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).
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Ludic's ECS is already pool-based — the allocator recycles freed entity slots
through a freelist (L_alloc pops @L_freen before growing @L_entc), and component
storage is fixed per-entity arrays, so spawn/despawn churn (bullet-hell/horde)
does no per-spawn heap allocation and cannot fragment. Expose that with a Pool.*
namespace so a game can watch reuse: Pool.live (alive now), Pool.free (recycled
slots waiting), Pool.reserved (high-water — stays flat across a steady
spawn/despawn loop, proving reuse not reallocation), Pool.capacity (the fixed
cap). Zero-cost inline reads of the existing counters.
Example pool.ludic proves the key property: after despawn+respawn,
Pool.reserved() stays 3 (freed slot reused) — prints 0 0 3 3 0 2 1 3 0 3 1.
4 docs pages. Full suite 118/0, goldens byte-identical, fixpoint holds.
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Assets loaded synchronously in Boot stalled the first frame(s). Adds an
Assets.* preload queue over the #81 atlas: Assets.enqueue(name, path) queues a
named image without loading it, Assets.pump(max) loads up to max per frame
(returns how many), and Assets.total/loaded/ready/progress (0..100) drive a
progress bar. A loading scene pumps a few per frame, draws Assets.progress(),
and becomes the play scene once Assets.ready() — the deterministic, no-threads
form of async preloading (work spread across frames; same enqueue+pump order
loads identically every run). Loaded assets are reachable by name via
Assets.get / Sprite.named.
Example preload (enqueue 3, pump incrementally 0->33->66->100, ready flips, get
by name) prints 3 0 0 0 1 33 66 1 100 1. 6 docs pages. Full suite 117/0,
fixpoint holds.
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`namespace Name { export function foo(...) ... internal function bar(...) ... }`
declares a Name.* namespace once and controls its public surface declaratively,
instead of annotating every function with @Namespace(Name). Inside the block
each `function short(...)` is emitted as `namelower_short`; export (the default)
makes it callable as Name.short(...), internal keeps it a private helper
(emitted, callable by short name from siblings — calls are rewritten — but
Name.internalOne() is a compile error). Block sugar for the per-function
@Namespace annotation; a package's public API reads at a glance. Namespaces
declared the old way are unchanged (gameplay_foundation still passes).
namespace added to LUDIC_KW_DECL + JetBrains/TextMate + docs page + inventory
(vocab/impl/docs checks green). Example namespace_block (export + internal +
sibling calls + internal-visibility compile error verified). Full suite 116/0,
fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A windowed action game can hide the OS cursor and lock/confine the mouse to the
window. Input.cursor_mode(mode): 0 normal, 1 hidden (draw your own reticle),
2 locked (hidden + dissociated — the mouse feeds relative motion via
Input.mouse_dx/dy and Input.mouse_x/y is a clamped virtual cursor, FPS/twin-stick
aim), 3 confined (dissociated but visible; the mouse can't leave the window).
The platform auto-releases (shows + reconnects) while the window is not key
(Cmd-Tab) and on close, so the cursor is never left captured. Headless it is a
no-op (DCE'd).
Native macOS impl in cocoa.ll: [NSCursor hide]/[unhide] (ref-counted, toggled
only on change so the count stays balanced across focus changes),
CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition, and CGGetLastMouseDelta for the relative
virtual cursor, behind a new win_cursor_mode intrinsic. Windowed-only behaviour
(not in the headless golden suite); example compiles headless and links
windowed. Full suite 115/0, fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sprite loading was a bare png_load — one file per 16x16 sprite, no way to load
one sheet and address a cell by grid coords or name. Adds a Sprite.*/Assets.*
runtime (atlas.ludic) over the variable-size image loader, so a cell is a
sub-rect of the kept image and is NOT restricted to the 16x16 sprite table:
Sprite.sheet(path,cw,ch), Sprite.cell(sheet,col,row),
Sprite.cell_span(sheet,col,row,cols,rows) (a sprite may span >1 cell),
Sprite.define/named (name + lookup), Sprite.draw/draw_scaled (through
camera/zoom/clip like Screen.sprite), Sprite.width/height, and
Assets.image/load/get. Spliced on demand (Sprite.sheet/… or Assets.*), so a
program using neither is byte-identical.
Example examples/library/atlas.ludic (verified against a real 12x11 Kenney
sheet, incl. a 2x3 multi-cell span and named lookup). 14 docs pages. Full
suite 114/0, goldens byte-identical, fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#79 — Input.axis_i(neg,pos) -> int returns a -1/0/1 movement intent from the
multi-key device set, so WASD-to-movement needs no bool->int glue and feeds an
int mover directly (dx = Input.axis_i('a','d')).
#84 — a Bounds config entity (rect + policy, from ludic.core) drives the
engine-owned world-bounds system (LateUpdate): clamp / wrap / bounce (clamp +
flip Body velocity) / kill (despawn a body fully outside). Reads the Collider
size so the box stays inside; off by default, spliced only when Bounds is
declared (byte-identical otherwise). Adds World.despawn(e) — the by-id
reflective despawn (runs @OnDespawn + frees) via a new world_despawn intrinsic
whose @fn_world_despawn helper is emitted in emit_program's tail once a use is
seen (the g_uses_* prelude pattern), used by the kill policy and callable from
any system.
Examples input_movement + world_bounds. Full suite 112/0, goldens
byte-identical, fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ClearColor(0xRRGGBB) declares the framebuffer clear colour, so the engine
owns the per-frame clear and flip: the Render phase clears to the colour at
the top and presents after the handlers run. Games drop the repeated
Screen.clear(color)/Screen.show() boilerplate, and the colour is configured
declaratively (an annotation) rather than in the handler body. Opt-in and
backward-compatible: a program with no @ClearColor is byte-for-byte identical
(it clears/presents itself, or the light system owns the present).
Parser reads @ClearColor(int) into g_clear_color/g_has_clear_color;
emit_game_main emits rt_clear before and rt_present after the Render phase,
gated on the flag. Example clear_color (pixel-readback verified — an undrawn
pixel holds the clear colour, proving the engine cleared), docs page +
inventory entry. Full suite 108/0, goldens byte-identical, fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes the papercut: the generated frame loop called rt_poll() (feeding only
Input.key) but never input_poll(), so Input.active/key_down/mouse/pad read
empty unless the game called Input.poll() by hand. The loop now calls
input_poll() when the game uses any Input runtime method — committing the
held-key/mouse/gamepad state, and record/replay — and stores its return as the
frame key so Input.key still works. A game using no Input runtime keeps the
plain rt_poll path, byte-identical.
Adds the Input-Manager API: Input.action(name,key) ships a default binding
(kept if already bound, so a rebind/loaded map isn't clobbered),
Input.bind_pad(name,button) makes an action device-agnostic (keyboard OR pad),
and Input.active/just_pressed/just_released read the multi-key device layer
with clean on-press/on-release edges (deterministic, dispatch-free — a handler
polls the edge; a replay fires identically).
Examples input_manager + input_auto, 5 docs pages. Full suite 107/0, goldens
byte-identical, fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The #78 investigation rejected hardware f32/f64 for the coordinate types
(they would desync lockstep/replay/save) and identified camera zoom as the
one genuinely-missing render feature. Ship it: Camera.zoom(scale) scales the
whole view about the screen centre by a Q16.16 factor, threaded through the
same two framebuffer chokepoints (rt_put_px/rt_fill_rect) that carry the
camera offset, so it composes with Camera.set/follow/shake. Gated by an
internal rt_cam_zoomed flag so a game that never zooms renders byte-for-byte
identically (golden renders unchanged); Camera.zoom(1.0) turns it back off.
The world coordinate types stay integer px + Q16.16 velocity, so it's a pure
render-time transform and itself deterministic.
Example examples/library/camera_zoom.ludic (pixel-readback verified),
docs page, RFC updated (docs/RFC-POSITION-TYPES.md). Full suite 105/0,
fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Infinite/chunked maps: <chunk x y width height> (TMX) and JSON chunks[]
(default 16x16) decode and flatten into the dense layer array, sized to the
chunk union; the map's 0/0 header dimensions fall back to the flattened bounds.
- .world stitching: Tiled.world / Tiled.world_count / Tiled.world_map read a
.world (JSON, reusing Json.parse) and list its member maps at their offsets.
- base64+zstd: a self-contained pure-Ludic Zstandard decompressor
(runtime/native/zstd.ludic, RFC 8878) — the design's "largest single item,
explicitly last". Frame header + raw/RLE/compressed blocks; raw/RLE and
direct-weight Huffman literals; the full FSE sequence path (predefined,
transcribed exactly from zstd's hardcoded tables since they're not rebuildable
from the default distributions; RLE; FSE-described) with repeat offsets and
execution. Decodes the low-entropy GID streams a tilemap produces; a high-
entropy FSE-compressed-Huffman-weights block fails cleanly with -1 rather than
emitting wrong bytes (documented scope).
Proven by library/tiled_p6.ludic (12 assertions): TMX + TMJ chunk flattening,
.world offsets, and a real zstd-compressed tile layer decoding byte-exactly to
its CSV baseline. x test: 97 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Image layers: <imagelayer> renders with parallax + optional repeatx/repeaty
tiling across the view; the image loads relative to the map file. Group layers
flatten at build (children render in file order); layer offset/opacity/tint are
queryable (Tiled.layer_kind / layer_offsetx / layer_offsety / layer_opacity /
layer_tint), a group's tint applying recursively.
- Orientation transforms: Tiled.cell_x / Tiled.cell_y compute a tile cell's
screen position for orthogonal, isometric ((x-y)*tw/2, (x+y)*th/2), staggered,
and hexagonal (rows step by (tileh+hexsidelength)/2, alternate rows shoved per
staggerindex) — the tile draw now places cells through them.
- Wang: exported Wang-set GIDs are ordinary GIDs and resolve through the standard
GID resolver; the terrain-corner authoring concept is editor-side (design cut).
Proven by library/tiled_p5.ludic (14 assertions) over the real
isometric_grass_and_water.tmx (iso + Wang) and hexagonal-mini.tmx, plus a
hand-authored image+group fixture. x test: 96 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Object layers: all shapes (rectangle/ellipse/point/polygon/polyline/text) and
custom properties parse and are queryable — Tiled.object_count / Tiled.object /
Tiled.object_shape, and Tiled.prop / prop_int / prop_type over any object /
tile / layer / map.
- Custom types: Tiled.load_types reads an objecttypes.xml project custom-type
table so a class property resolves its default; enum values resolve as strings.
- Templates: Tiled.template reads a .tx/.tj, and Tiled.load merges each object's
`template` reference under the instance's overrides (field inheritance).
- Opt-in spawning: Tiled.spawn / Tiled.spawn_layer map an object's class +
properties onto Ludic components through the reflection ABI (Position from x/y,
each property to a like-named field). Off by default — no gameplay coupling in
the core load. Split into tiled_spawn.ludic, spliced only for a Tiled *game*
(the world table exists only under has_ecs), so a plain map-reading tool never
links against the reflection ABI.
Proven by library/tiled_p4.ludic (18 assertions) incl. the design's named
orthogonal-outside.tmx object shapes. x test: 95 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Animated tiles: a tileset <animation>'s {tileid, duration} frames advance as a
pure function of the fixed 60/s engine frame counter (the same clock SpriteAnim
rides), so an animated GID resolves at draw to the current frame's GID with its
flip flags preserved — deterministic, frame-identical across runs, ticks for
free. Tiled.frame_gid(map, gid, frame) / Tiled.animated(map, gid) expose it;
Tiled.draw_anim(map, camx, camy, frame) draws a map with animations advanced.
- Tile objects: object-layer entries with a `gid` draw the tile image (with their
own flip flags), bottom-anchored at the object position, as placeable sprites;
tmap_draw_full now renders object layers alongside tile layers.
Proven by library/tiled_p3.ludic (14 assertions): frame advance at authored
durations + wrap, flip flags riding an animation swap, tile-object parse + draw +
flip mirroring, and the design's named rpg/beach_tileset.tsx (33 <animation>
blocks / 131 frames). x test: 94 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Normalise three collision sources into the byte tilemap esys_move / Grid.* /
Path.* read, in the design's priority order (§3.5):
- per-tile <objectgroup> hitboxes (Tiled.tile_shapes) — the precise source;
- the solid/oneway/trigger bool property convention (Tiled.collision_kind);
- the designated collision layer — any non-zero GID solid (Tiled.project),
the fallback source, applied automatically on load.
Tiled.collide drives collision from a visual layer's per-tile metadata alone
(a tile with no collision metadata stays passable). tmap_collision_kind
classifies a GID (0 none / 1 solid / 2 one-way / 3 trigger) from its metadata;
the projection adds the collision-layer fallback.
Proven by library/tiled_p2.ludic (14 assertions): kind classification for each
source, the property convention and collision-layer fallback producing an
identical Solids feed, a per-tile-<objectgroup> floor blocking an esys_move
mover, and A* over a loaded map matching the hand-authored baseline. x test:
93 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The heart of Tiled support: load a map and draw it.
- rt_tmap model (Tmap/TmLayer/TmTileset in tiled.ludic): map header + ordered
layers (dense int32 GID arrays, heap-allocated to w*h, lifting the 96x64 cap)
+ tilesets. Built from the intermediate Value tree, so the TMX and TMJ paths
both feed it.
- GID resolver (Tiled.resolve): gid -> (tileset, localId, flipH/V/D); the three
flip flags masked off before the local-id lookup, returned alongside. gid==0
is empty.
- Image-backed render (Tiled.draw): every visible tile layer in file order,
blitting each tile from its tileset image with flips applied at draw.
- Compatibility projection (Tiled.project / auto on load): a designated
collision layer projects to the legacy byte tilemap ('#' solid, '=' one-way
via the oneway property, ' ' empty) so Grid.*/Path.*/esys_move are unchanged.
- Tiled.load resolves external tilesets + images relative to the map file and
auto-projects a collision/solids/walls layer.
- The grid and physics_tiles demos now run off a loaded map (grid_maze.tmx /
physics_map.tmx) instead of hand-authored Map.row strings, byte-identically.
Two compiler fixes fell out of this (see the changeset):
- emit_index_addr set g_addr_ty before evaluating the index, so slice[obj.field]
came back mis-typed; set it last, like the raw-pointer branches.
- @strcmp was declared by both the world table and the fs prelude; centralise
it in the head prelude so a game that uses Fs/Path links.
Proven by library/tiled_p1.ludic (14 assertions: loads+renders Kenney map
identically from .tmx and .tmj, flip mirroring) + the converted grid/
physics_tiles demos. x test: 92 passed; self-host bootstrap fixpoint intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tiled.read / Tiled.read_tsx (runtime/native/tiled.ludic): map the native
XML formats (TMX/TSX/TX) onto the SAME intermediate the JSON path produces
— a Value tree in Tiled's JSON schema — so one format-independent core
(P1) consumes either reader.
- tmx_to_value walks a <map> into {orientation, width/height, tilewidth/
height, tilesets[], layers[]}; every tile layer's <data> is decoded to a
dense GID int list (CSV split, or base64 -> zlib/gzip inflate ->
little-endian u32s), so a CSV .tmx and a base64 .tmj of the same map read
structurally identically.
- External tilesets keep the {firstgid, source} reference (as TMJ does);
embedded tilesets and standalone .tsx (tsx_to_value) inline full geometry
+ per-tile metadata (animation frames, collision objectgroup, class,
properties) for later phases.
- Object layers, shapes (rect/ellipse/point/polygon/polyline/text),
image/group layers and custom properties are parsed into the tree now so
P2/P4/P5 just read it.
- tmj_normalize decodes base64 `data` strings in a parsed .tmj so the JSON
path matches the XML path.
Proven by library/tiled_p05.ludic (30 assertions) incl. the in-repo Kenney
sampleMap.tmx + external sampleSheet.tsx and TMX-vs-TMJ structural
identity. Docs + inventory added; x test: 91 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The three parsing primitives the TMX path needs that were not already in
the tree (zlib inflate + the JSON reader already shipped):
- Xml.* — a minimal, deterministic pure-Ludic XML reader for the
element/attribute/CDATA subset TMX/TSX/TX use, spliced on demand. Handles
nested elements, single/double-quoted attributes, text + <![CDATA[…]]>,
comments, the <?xml?> prolog and <!DOCTYPE>, the five predefined entities
and numeric character references.
- Base64.* — standard base64 (RFC 4648) decode + a matching pure-Ludic
encoder; the decoder ignores the whitespace Tiled wraps into <data>.
Splicing Base64.* also pulls in inflate.ludic so a plain tool can run the
full base64 -> zlib/gzip decode chain.
- z_gunzip — gzip framing (RFC 1952) over the existing DEFLATE inflater:
skip the 10-byte header + optional fields, inflate the body, ignore the
CRC32/ISIZE trailer.
Golden corpus vendored under assets/tiled-fixtures/ (mapeditor/tiled
examples, attributed, + hand-authored multi-encoding fixtures). New
example library/tiled_p0.ludic proves all three (21 assertions); docs
pages + inventory added so check-impl stays green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 0 of the gameplay-controller work (#57): turn the static Collision.*
overlap tests into a real physics-lite moving-body-with-collision layer that
the platformer / shooter / NPC-AI / RPG families build on.
New engine-owned system esys_move (runtime/native/systems_move.ludic), spliced
and Update-phase-registered when a game declares `Body` (parse.ludic), standing
entirely on the reflection ABI like the SpriteAnim / Motion / Light2D systems:
- Body { vx, vy, gravity, max_fall, rx, ry, policy, on_ground, hit_wall,
hit_ceiling } — Q16.16 velocity + engine-owned sub-pixel accumulators.
- Collider { w, h, offx, offy, is_trigger, one_way, layer, mask, hit, entered,
exited } — AABB shape off Position, layer/mask filtering, one-way + triggers.
- Solids { tile, wall, oneway } — optional config entity enabling the tile-grid
broadphase over the Map.* tilemap.
esys_move integrates velocity + gravity, then resolves per-axis swept AABB
against both solid Collider entities and the tile grid (no tunneling), handles
one-way platforms (block only a downward landing), reports trigger/sensor
overlaps without resolving, and sets on_ground / hit_wall / hit_ceiling for a
controller to poll. No float, no hidden singletons, no runtime dispatch —
integer + deterministic, so replay / lockstep / world_save hold. Contact is
surfaced as polled flags (the SpriteAnim.event_fired shape), so a game raises
its own CollisionResolved / TriggerEntered events with no engine coupling.
Two self-asserting examples (entity + tile broadphase) wired into `x test`;
docs added to the collision section. A build with no Body compiles byte-for-byte
the same (bootstrap fixpoint + all golden renders unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-annotation pages for the three package-registration annotations (with
inventory entries), a "Package-declarable namespaces and engine systems" section
in docs/PACKAGES.md, and a changeset. All doc gates green (check-docs 675
fences, docs-check 726 symbols).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
