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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
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
3d2a103dfb fix(lang): a function named like a compiler built-in is refused; reseed
A program's own `run` was never called: every call to it lowered to the
built-in System.run (C's system()), and clang failed on the IR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:09:29 +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
7d8f34de17 feat(ui): flex-shrink, text that wraps beside its siblings, calc(), order, and 0 as a size
- flex-shrink: a line whose children want more room than it has takes it back from those that
  shrink, in proportion to shrink times size and never below a min size, a fixed size or the
  content. A scroll box shrinks (and scrolls), and a box in a column shrinks as far as the scroll
  boxes inside it let it, so a list in a column takes the room its siblings leave with no height.
  `flex: grow shrink`, and `flex-shrink` by name.
- A row wider than its room measures its texts (and boxes without a width) again in the room the
  rest leave them, so a line wraps beside an icon.
- calc() with + - * / and brackets over px, %, em, rem, vw, vh, plain numbers and var(); a width
  or height keeps its percentage, taken of the room it is given. Lengths lists (padding, margin)
  keep a calc()'s spaces.
- `order` places a box's children without touching the tree.
- width: 0 and height: 0 are 0: an unset size is UI_AUTO now, not 0.
- A component root that is itself a component takes each user's class, style and id in turn (the
  outermost's id wins), and the rules of all their sheets are weighed by specificity together; a
  user's rule wins a tie. The parent's sheet used to override the child's whatever its specificity,
  and a middle component's sheet was lost.
- The default sheet lays .ui-track out as a row, so a range's fill is as tall as its track and a
  checked box's knob goes right; a range's thumb is centred on the fill's end.
- ui_boxes.ludic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 19:54:14 +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
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
f5ab5cf88a fix(events): a listener's return ends that listener, not the dispatch
Listeners are compiled into one @ev_<E> function and return branched to its exit, so every
listener declared after one that returned early - and every foreign listener - never heard
the event. The per-kind listener shape (return unless it is my kind) answered only the
first-declared kind. examples/events/answer.ludic holds it; seed regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 17:42:18 +03:00
4979cc0c94 feat: every key on the keyboard is bindable - the F-row, the six-pack, Caps Lock and the numpad
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 00:57:02 +03:00
43d5eb5b88 feat(launcher): Process.*, Http.save_to/received/expected, App.window_hide/show
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 13:32:23 +03:00
ebb1a00352 feat(udp): Udp.* - polled IPv4 datagrams on macOS and Windows
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 11:16:14 +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
619476ffed fix(input): keys are physical positions on every layout; Input.key_label names them
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 23:26:53 +03:00
04cda22d19 fix(parse): fn stays an ordinary name unless a function name follows on the same line
`fn name` read `while p < fn and ...` as a reference to a function called `and`, which broke
tools/ludic-cli/glgen.ludic and so the dev tool's own build. A reference now needs the name on
the same line and not one of and / or / not / in / is. The threads example checks `fn` as a
local before `and`. Reseeded; bootstrap-cfree reproduces the seed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 14:12:29 +03:00
c10abd9f9f feat(jobs): real OS threads - Job.parallel_for, fn name, thread-safe Sync
- `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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 13:52:22 +03:00
a674c9b372 fix(render3d): Vulkan exposure, foliage depth and meadow alpha
Three things the first Vulkan frames on the RTX 3070 Ti showed against OpenGL on the same PC:

- Exposure: the adaptation pass reads the HDR scene's smallest mip, and a render target made
  without pixels had one level, so exposure came from a single texel. A target asked for mipmaps
  now grows a full chain (level 0 kept), and passes draw through level-0 views keyed by the
  image's generation.
- Foliage: the depth prepass and the lit pass (depth EQUAL) are different variants. Vulkan vertex
  stages now declare an invariant gl_Position so both land on the same depth.
- Alpha to coverage is enabled only on a multisampled pass. OpenGL ignores it without MSAA; Vulkan
  with one sample dropped every fragment under half alpha.

vk_resources also checks a big-endian 16-bit RGB upload (a normal map). VKRES OK; ludic-dev test
140 passed; the PC's Vulkan frame is validation-clean; OpenGL frames byte-identical at the five
viewpoints with 59 self-tests passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 12:29:24 +03:00
c660ac881c feat(render3d): Vulkan textures, samplers and buffers
gpu_vk_res.ludic gains what gpu.ludic's texture and buffer handles stand for on Vulkan:

- gvk_tex_storage / _upload / _mips / _read / _release: an image and view per handle, a full mip
  chain when pixels come with it (the renderer asks for mipmaps after the upload) and one level
  for a target, every level in SHADER_READ_ONLY between uses. Uploads are converted to what the
  image stores: a missing alpha filled opaque (three-channel formats are stored with four), 16-bit
  PNG samples byte-swapped when the unpack state says so, 32-bit float HDR halved into half
  floats. Mips are blitted down level by level; a read-back brings level 0 home.
- gvk_sampler: one VkSampler per filter / wrap / compare / anisotropy combination, made when first
  asked for, with GL's defaults where the renderer set nothing.
- gvk_buf_*: vertex, index and instance buffers behind one handle, kept when an upload fits.
  Host-visible while the backend comes up.

gpu_vk.ludic switches on anisotropic sampling where the device has it and reads its limit.

examples/rendering/vk_resources.ludic checks it all: VKRES OK, validation-clean, every allocation
freed, on the RTX 3070 Ti (16x anisotropy) and on MoltenVK. One run on the Mac crashed while a
headless game run was using the GPU and did not come back in two reruns. OpenGL frames
byte-identical at the five viewpoints; 59 self-tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 11:57:28 +03:00
7d93f44e53 feat(render3d): gpu_vk.ludic - the Vulkan backend's device, memory and one-shot commands
The first part of the Vulkan side of gpu.ludic, not yet reached from the renderer: gvk_init
brings up the instance (portability enumeration where offered), the first discrete GPU, a
graphics queue and a device with the Tier 1 floor switched on (dynamic rendering,
synchronization2, descriptor indexing, timeline semaphores), and says why when it cannot so
the caller stays on OpenGL. gvk_mem_type / gvk_alloc pick and allocate memory (one allocation
per resource while the backend comes up), and gvk_once_begin / gvk_once_end carry uploads,
bakes and read-backs through submit and wait.

examples/rendering/vk_device.ludic runs it alone: VKDEVICE OK and validation-clean on the RTX
3070 Ti and on MoltenVK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 11:46:50 +03:00
c55a1cc7f2 feat(examples): vk_triangle - a headless draw through Vulkan's graphics pipeline
A Slang vertex and fragment shader draw a triangle into an image with dynamic rendering (no
render pass object: the pipeline names its colour format), image barriers move it to the
attachment and transfer layouts, and vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer reads it back into a PPM. It is
the path the Vulkan renderer's passes and screenshots take.

The corner comes from SV_VulkanVertexID: Slang compiles SV_VertexID to gl_VertexIndex -
gl_BaseVertex, which declares the draw-parameters capability.

Validation-clean and VKTRIANGLE OK on the RTX 3070 Ti (Windows) and the M4 Pro (MoltenVK),
13824 pixels covered on both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 11:37:47 +03:00
f97d54aa2a feat(render3d): read the SPIR-V manifest the way a Vulkan backend will
gpu_manifest.ludic loads shaders/spv/manifest.txt and answers what a backend asks while drawing:
which variant a program built by r3d_program is, where a uniform lives in its stage's block,
which binding a sampler has, what the vertex inputs are. examples/rendering/vk_manifest.ludic
resolves every program in variants.list against it (45 of 45) and checks a few offsets and
bindings. Nothing imports it yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 10:41:43 +03:00