`struct` and `property` had identical syntax and differed only in semantics, so
they are now one keyword: `property`. How a property is stored follows from how
it is used —
- listed in a `model` or attached by `spawn` -> an ECS component, kept in the
engine's per-entity @S_/@H_ arrays and bound in queries (as before);
- constructed with `new` -> a heap record with reference
semantics (what `struct` used to be).
A program that declares only `property` records and functions — no `model`, no
`handler` — is not an ECS program: it gets record layouts and `new`, but no
entity storage, allocator, snapshot, or runtime splice. This is exactly the
shape of the Ludic compiler itself, whose Node/Tok/Buf/Val are now `property`.
Mechanics:
- record layout (%Cmp_) now always emitted in the header (emit_head), so `new`
works with or without the ECS; the per-entity arrays stay in
emit_ecs_storage. %Str_ is gone — one layout prefix.
- has_ecs() is now `has_systems() or has_models()`, not "any component"; a
property alone no longer drags in the ECS runtime. Added has_models().
- emit_new / member access / layout_ty / layout_node collapse onto find_comp.
Dropped struct keyword, parse_struct, find_struct, is_struct_ty, N_STRUCT
emission (the const stays at kind 0, the default node kind).
Migration done as two reseeds (the old compiler treats any component as ECS, so
it cannot see `property` records in the compiler source until has_ecs is fixed):
A) teach the compiler property-as-record + fix has_ecs, keeping `struct`;
B) migrate the compiler's own records to `property` and remove `struct`.
selfhost/tests/structs.ludic migrated (still prints 7 9 109 2 42). Vocabulary
drops `struct` from DECL (ludic_syntax.h, grammar, LudicTokens.kt). LANGUAGE.md
"Records" section rewritten. Reseeded (21613 lines); C-free fixpoint holds;
goldens identical; 17/17; vocab + doc-fences clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Ludic for VS Code
Syntax highlighting, formatting, and full language-server support for Ludic,
the AI-first, ECS-native game language. See LANGUAGE.md in the Ludic repository
for the language reference.
What you get
| Source | |
|---|---|
| Syntax highlighting | TextMate grammar, works with no build |
| Semantic highlighting | ludic-lsp — real name resolution, so a component reads differently from a local |
| Diagnostics | structural errors as you type; ludicc's own errors on save |
| Completion | context-aware: fields after ., components inside query [...], phases after phase, widgets inside ui |
| Hover | signatures and docs for builtins, intrinsics, and everything you declared |
| Go to definition / references / rename | across every file in the compilation unit, following import |
| Formatting | format-on-save, comment-preserving |
| Outline, folding, inlay hints, signature help | |
```ludic fences in Markdown |
highlighted, checked, and formatted |
Setup
Build the toolchain once, from the repository root:
./tools/build-tools.sh
That produces build/ludic-lsp and build/ludic-fmt, which the extension finds
on its own. If you keep them elsewhere, set ludic.server.path.
Format on save:
"[ludic]": { "editor.formatOnSave": true }
Settings
ludic.server.path— whereludic-lsplives. Empty = searchbuild/, thenPATH.ludic.server.enabled— turn the server off and keep only static highlighting.ludic.compilerPath— whereludicclives, for on-save diagnostics.ludic.compilerDiagnostics— whether to run the compiler at all.ludic.indentSize— spaces per level for the formatter.ludic.trace.server— log LSP traffic (Ludic: Show Language Server Log).
Installing without publishing
cd tools/editors/vscode
npm install
npx @vscode/vsce package
code --install-extension ludic-1.0.0.vsix