ludic/changes/split-dev-cli.md at e1756195431b26c93ff3ccbd8eabd212f61ea6f5

Orkuncakilkaya 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

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bump: minor type: refactor ludic is only the language's command line now. The toolchain's own tasks — building the compiler from its IR seed, the regression suites, the docs site, releases — moved out of it into a separate ludic-dev binary that is built from a checkout and is not part of an install.

ludic help is what a user can actually do: new, run, build, test, add, fmt, lsp, doctor, upgrade. No section about a repository they do not have. Typing ludic dev … says where those tasks went rather than failing as an unknown command.
ludic dev <task> becomes ludic-dev <task> for contributors; every task is otherwise unchanged. The bootstrap is now bin/ludicc tools/ludic-cli/dev.ludic -o bin/ludic-dev && bin/ludic-dev build.
The shipped binary drops from ~880 KB to ~190 KB, since none of the release, docs-generation or bootstrap machinery is linked into it any more.

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