work-in-progress programming language. https://git.downsta.ir/moon/zygotec/atom?h=main 2026-10-14T10:05:40+00:00 2026-10-14T10:05:40+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T10:05:40+00:00 urn:sha1:ce920b6ff47f32bc06dd27124e1b882f82f3d6ae src/compiler/compiler.zc is now twelve files under src/compiler/, listed in order in src/compiler/parts. cat of the parts in order is byte-identical to the old file, so every compiler and image except the language server's is unchanged. no function was edited. consumers read the list: the makefile, bootstrap-check, genmap (which still writes one compiler.zc into a generated map directory), tinyvm.bat, test.sh, test_win.ps1 and the lsp drivers. the language server embeds each part and serves them joined as the one document tinyvm:/compiler.zc. 2026-10-14T09:39:39+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T09:39:39+00:00 urn:sha1:0ed3f650e50bc6fa7712e1b3e650ec9bc678ac91 2026-10-14T09:39:22+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T09:39:22+00:00 urn:sha1:6bb3d79cbd853601623095b497a1807489c3ef6e typedef T name; binds name to the type record of T, at the top level or in a function (scoped to its block). string is a built-in alias for char*. A type name straight before , or ) in a parameter list is the parameter's name, so fn f(string) still works. The language server shows typedef T name; on hover and highlights typedef as a keyword. 2026-10-14T09:33:03+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T09:33:03+00:00 urn:sha1:ebaa15f02dd0e5aa358ea2e527ae4557e40b4e9c const NAME = e; inside a struct body declares a compile-time constant named Struct.NAME, reached as Struct.NAME or by bare name in the struct's methods. A misspelled field or Struct.name member now ends its error with '; did you mean 'name'?' on the member word, which the language server turns into a quick fix. 2026-10-14T09:07:12+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T09:07:12+00:00 urn:sha1:fd622c51be670bba2acf4b50c548acedbc8bb263 TODO.md ticks the items verified done (namespaces, actor and icon libraries and their coverage, the genome embed, the bootstrap ownership limits, the docs and fixtures sweep) and lists everything still open, including the newly requested language features, sorted easiest first. the compiler no longer names actor: file libraries for suggestions come from src/lib/modules.txt, and lib.name before its include reports the missing include. icon gains fixtures for reading globals while stepping and for begin_function on a non-function, and the suite checks that nothing the compiler reads by default mentions actors. bf.zc, the web sample and std's capture example use qualified runtime names; LEARN.md uses build/bin paths. 2026-10-14T08:30:01+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T08:30:01+00:00 urn:sha1:d274751e89f75cc0f0e25c6e5e87ef91b64597ee const name = value; inside a function declares a local constant that takes the initializer's type. the let quick fix now writes a bare const. the self-hosted compiler bound || tighter than &&, unlike zc0 and the readme. no existing source mixed them without parentheses, so only new code was affected. missing-name diagnostics and their quick fixes now search every module: rt, core, run, loaded files, and std, icon and actor scanned from source, including static groups (std.Text.itoa). typos suggest module exports (putc -> rt.put_c) and get a change-to fix. 2026-10-14T08:09:40+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T08:09:40+00:00 urn:sha1:a3e9e53e64a1aa5692bca2b60bcbff6a0fcfdba1 an undefined bare name that a module exports now says which one: "put_c is used but never defined; did you mean to include rt and use rt.put_c?", and the import quick fix is titled the same way and marked preferred when it is the only one, so the editor's auto-fix applies it. hints gain quick fixes that keep the program's meaning: an unused parameter, or a local with no other use, is renamed to _; a constant local with one declarator becomes const; a power-of-two multiply becomes a parenthesized shift (not when a * / or % binds its left operand); and let p = rt.new(n) with a small constant becomes let p[n]. the hints no longer fire for _ discards or for locals already declared const. whole-line /* */ comments in zc sources are // comments now, and //: is gone from the maintained sources: the notes it marked were mostly the documentation of the declaration below, which hovers now show. section headers are separated from the declarations after them. 2026-10-14T07:55:08+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T07:55:08+00:00 urn:sha1:d8da21a406f449d277c42b91d4c9bf8b20bd0dcc embed declarations get accept and reject fixtures, a run-only image check through zc0, an lsp keyword hover and the grammar keyword. errors point at the declaration and still declare the name, so its uses are not reported again. zc0 tracks byte-string globals and lays embedded arrays out one word per element, the way its own indexing reads them. the command-line javascript vm reaches node's file system for the file syscalls, so include and embed work there; other embedders opt in. the web build is self-contained in build/web with its examples. README, BORROW and BOOTSTRAP-OWNERSHIP describe the new build and ownership rules, and ONBOARD.md is a reading and verification order for the code. the suite passes the map header to mklayout, the wasm fuzz program uses the include format, and lsp drivers scale their deadlines on hosts without the arm64 jit (ZC_TEST_TIMEOUT_SCALE). LLVM_CONFIG selects an llvm with headers for the llvm section. 2026-10-14T07:28:39+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T07:28:39+00:00 urn:sha1:7451eb090d890fb5ea5e4d40627a1b4df15a49de the cores take their genome in with c23 #embed through src/core/genome.h, so images are plain little-endian word files (genome.bin) instead of generated c headers. zc0 writes that format, mkgenome checks an image against its map and shows a compiler's diagnostics when it gets them, and the javascript vm and the editor's vm host read the same files. src/tools/findcc.sh picks a compiler with #embed (clang 19 or gcc 15). zc gets an embed declaration, embed "file" as [type] name, for globals and locals: a byte string by default, char*, numbers read little-endian, and arrays of numbers. the compiler and language server carry their library and source texts through it, so embed.sh and the text it spliced into compiler.zc are gone. make writes executables to build/bin, the default map to build/core/map, the web page to build/web and the extension staging to build/vsix, and the genome now rebuilds when its sources change. the test suite lays out its own map and bootstrap and reads nothing from build/. also: rt.put_s of a byte string in zc0 images, retained function sources no longer count as live objects, a missing include no longer cascades into undefined-name errors, consecutive comment lines join into one hover paragraph, and stale test fixtures follow the include format. 2026-10-14T05:55:19+00:00 zinc zinc@downsta.ir 2026-10-14T05:55:19+00:00 urn:sha1:05f7b7e09ad503e4eac4f757de0d7329174f6437 an owned local can now move into a released owner declared in the same or an outer block, and g = m*x lends a local owner to a global until the global is assigned again in the same block. leaving that block, giving the local away, or returning while the lend is open is an error. recasting a plain local now names it and says it has no ownership to recast. methdef and syntax_resident use the supported spellings, so make genome reaches its fixpoint from a clean checkout. runerr.sh reads the first // expect: line, since the include headers moved it off line 1.