The README was macOS-centric and internally contradictory about backends
(claimed `--target wasm32` and ELF/COFF cross-compile as implemented while the
prose said they were retired with the C compiler). Rewritten to match the repo:
- Tight pitch: compiled, self-hosted, C-free, ECS, deterministic 2D.
- Honest **Backends** table: native 2D ships today; the web/wasm platform layer
(runtime/web/) and native-vs-wasm diff harness are in-tree and documented, but
emitting wasm is not yet re-wired on the self-hosted toolchain — same for
`--target` cross-compile and `--shared` (per COMPILING.md). Removed the false
"implemented" claims.
- **Quick start** verified end-to-end: the clang seed one-liner, `bin/x build`,
`bin/x app examples/games/snake.ludic`, and the headless flow (now writing
build/out.ppm, not the repo root).
- Layout table matches the reorganised tree: examples/ subdirs (with a link to
examples/README.md), the golden hash manifest, runtime/native + runtime/web,
tooling and docs.
- Replaced the giant inline roadmap with a concise status plus links out to the
issue tracker/proposals, the docs site, and the wiki.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Repository-cleanup / DX pass folding three tracker items into one coherent
change, verified green end to end (`bin/x test` 49/0, `bin/x selfhost-test`
29/0, `bin/x test-tools` 29/0).
#28 — curate & categorise examples/
- 42 flat entries regrouped into intent-revealing subdirs: games/, rendering/,
ecs/, events/, networking/, lang/, library/ (was lib/).
- chronorift dir-vs-file duplication resolved: the entry file and its import
modules now live together under games/chronorift(.ludic).
- Every path reference updated repo-wide (test runner, editor-tool drivers,
docs/site, design docs).
- New examples/README.md indexes the whole set with run commands.
- Showcase examples without a self-asserting entry (hello, events, net_rt) now
get a compile-only rot guard in `bin/x test`, so nothing here rots silently.
#30 — text-diffable golden baseline
- The 4 binary selfhost/golden/*.ppm blobs are replaced by a single
selfhost/golden/renders.sha256 manifest (SHA-256 per render). Hashes are
byte-identical to the old PPMs, so the baseline is unchanged — only its form.
- game_case now compares framebuffer hashes; a regression shows as a changed
hex line in review, not "binary files differ".
- New `bin/x golden` regenerates the manifest deliberately (review with
`git diff selfhost/golden/renders.sha256`).
#27 — PPM & asset handling
- Headless renders now write build/out.ppm, never the repo root; `x app`,
`x clean`, messaging and .gitignore updated to match. Nothing is written to
the working root any more.
- Redundant local Kenney .zip archives removed (the art ships extracted;
.gitignore already excludes *.zip). CC0 License.txt files retained.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tree had only the bundled Kenney asset licenses (CC0), leaving the Ludic
compiler and runtime source implicitly all-rights-reserved (issue #36).
- Add a root `LICENSE`: Apache-2.0 — permissive, with the patent grant that
suits a language/compiler project.
- README: add a License section stating `SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0`
and clarifying that code (Apache-2.0) and the third-party CC0 Kenney art are
licensed separately. Also add a Contributing section linking CONTRIBUTING.md
and the Forgejo templates.
Closes#36
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Implement the bulk of the namespaced-stdlib proposal (workshopsoft/ludic#2):
156 namespace methods across Math, Text, List, Ease, Collide, World, Net,
Sys, Save, Mem, extended Screen, Color functions, extended Random, and Time.
All deterministic fixed-point; self-hosting (C-free bootstrap fixpoint holds).
Compiler (selfhost/):
- Math.*: sqrt/sin/cos/tan/atan2/asin/acos (fixed-point runtime prelude —
bit-by-bit isqrt, 256-entry interpolated sine table, Ross atan2), plus
hypot/dist/dist2/deg_to_rad/rad_to_deg/posmod/wrap/ping_pong/snapped/
move_toward/smoothstep/lerp/remap/sign/floor/ceil/round.
- Text.* (complete): upper/lower/trim/repeat/pad, split/join/replace,
and the libc-backed queries.
- List.* (complete): insert/remove_at/remove/sort plus the earlier ops.
- Ease.* (in/out/in_out/back/bounce) and Collide.* (rects/point_rect/
circles/rect_circle).
- Phase 3: World/Net/Sys/Save namespaced over the bare builtins (byte-
identical IR) and Mem.* (bytes/words/copy/fill/peek/poke).
- Screen.* extended (line/circle/fill_circle/triangle/fill_triangle via new
runtime primitives; sprite/sprite_scaled aliases), Color.* functions,
Random.* (value/int/sign), Time.* (frame/delta/elapsed/now — new
game-loop frame counter).
- Fix a lexer bug: fixed-point literals with >4 fractional digits overflowed.
Docs & tooling:
- 129 new per-symbol doc pages; gen.py made data-driven (namespaces
discovered from the docs, no hardcoded list); new check-impl.py enforces
that every implemented namespace method / keyword / type / phase has a
doc page, wired into `x test-tools`. Document the previously-undocumented
keywords (break/continue/where/entry/new/public + and/or/not tokens).
- LSP: namespaced signature help (ns_method_sig) covering every namespace.
Tests: 12 new self-host/regression tests + a golden render for the drawing
primitives. All suites green (selfhost 21, regression 45, tools 29).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixed the naming inconsistencies the cohesion audit flagged, converging on the
domain-first style the bulk of the surface already uses (ui_*, text_*, rng_*,
font_load, image_load):
- load_png -> png_load (asset loaders were split: font_load/image_load
- load_sprites -> sprites_load were domain-first, load_* were verb-first)
- setreg -> set_reg (missing underscore vs ui_set_int/ui_set_text)
Game builtins resolve to their `rt_` runtime function, so the renames are in
runtime/native (rt_png_load, rt_sprites_load, rt_set_reg) plus the ~100 example
call sites; `become` lowering in emit_machine now emits @fn_rt_set_reg. Purely a
surface rename — every renamed call maps to the same runtime symbol, so behavior
and golden renders are byte-identical.
Vocabulary + docs updated (ludic_syntax.h, grammar, LudicTokens.kt, LANGUAGE.md,
README, SYNTAX-REDESIGN). Reseeded; C-free fixpoint holds; goldens identical;
17/17; vocab clean.
Left as-is: os_argc/os_arg (compiler-internal intrinsics, already namespaced and
consistent with each other; renaming would need a bootstrap dance for little
gain). reg/set_reg keep the getter-bare/setter-set_ shape ui_focused/ui_set_int
already use.
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@Queries(these: [Prop{constraint}, ...], on: Model) on a handler desugars to the
existing S_QUERY loop: each property binds by its own name, a Prop{...} block
qualifies its bare fields to that property, and on: adds a {Model} tag filter.
Implemented via parse_queries_anno + qualify_fields (parse_game.ludic), wired
into parse_one_decl; @Handles parses on the program (documentation).
examples/annotations.ludic demonstrates it (output 3 1 0 0); test.sh 15/15.
Docs: added the Annotations section to LANGUAGE.md and did the vocabulary prose
pass (component->property, archetype->model, system->handler, game->program)
across the docs. check-docs + test-tools green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
edge/pure/export prefix keywords retired; modifiers are now leading @annotations
(@export, @edge, @pure, @deterministic). parse_one_decl collects a leading @anno
run and @export sets the fn export flag; dead edge-dispatch removed from
parse_system. Migrated examples/lib/combat.ludic; old prefixes now rejected.
Behavior-identical: the export flag is parse-only in the self-hosted emitter
(emits @fn_<name> for every fn, never reads the flag), so IR is byte-identical.
Reseeded, fixpoint holds, test.sh 14/14. Docs updated. Phase 3 complete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Self-hosted compiler (selfhost/*.ludic), runtime, examples, editor tooling,
and docs. Phase 1 of the syntax-redesign cohesion pass has landed:
edge-system fix, signature-query, when-alias, and the documentation truth-pass.
Suite green (14/14), C-free bootstrap fixpoint holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
