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- developer directive: pending iteration IDs now ARE the priority order; LANDED iterations keep historical numbers (code comments and commit history cite them — records, not a queue); 8/11 (the half-landed arc), 17 (parked, artifacts on a branch), 18 (next, artifacts named) also frozen - mapping (recorded in 00-story): 19<-20 Float+Bytes, 20<-9c attach, 21<-9d keypair, 22<-9e benchmarks, 23<-9f io_uring WAL, 24<-19 chat, 25<-10 services, 26<-12 blue-green, 27<-9g query corpus, 28<-14 skillhost, 29<-13 metaprogramming - 11 story files renamed; every doc reference re-numbered (word-boundary sweep for the lettered 9x ids, phrase-level for numeric ones); the iterations table rewritten with Seq == priority and "(was N)" notes; story-scoped link check: zero broken - merge-recovery folded in: the partial master merge had dropped the chat story, the fibers exploration note, the arc spec+plan, the framework-v2 plan, and the iteration-17 spec+plan — all restored from their branches and renumbered consistently Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Code Review: log-watcher Compilation Requirements
This document was a gap analysis of what the woc front end needs before the
log-watcher sample compiles. Its findings were extracted on 2026-08-10 into
superpowers/specs/2026-08-10-logwatcher-gap-closure-design.md
and the plans it amends; its Phase 1–4 roadmap is retired in favour of the
approved story iterations. See 00-status.md for current
status.
Native speed — the big one. Everything is interpreted: ~40× behind Go on raw compute, no JIT, no AOT-to-native. The scheduling primitives win benchmarks; a compute-bound handler loses them all back. There is also no Float type at all (the storefront prices in cents for a reason), no SIMD story, and fixed interpreter ceilings (4096 register slots, 256 frames, ~42 KiB per fiber until growable contexts land).
- Language expressiveness. No generics — the cache stores Text and tells you to json.encode; no function values or closures (doctrine, but it's why every handler is a class with one method); byte-based strings with no Unicode awareness; no Result-style error values (traps + try only); pattern matching is a switch, not destructuring. Some of this is deliberate rejection, but "deliberate" doesn't make the expressiveness appear.
- Concurrency holes the arc hasn't closed. send is one-way — no reply/request-response primitive (my own benchmarks couldn't await the actor and had to sleep); no supervision, links, or actor death (actors live until process end); unbounded mailboxes with zero backpressure; no timers beyond sleep; round-robin placement with no work stealing; multi-shard DB access still traps (stage 3 unbuilt); accept lives on one shard.
- Production plumbing. No TLS anywhere (proxy-mandated forever), no HTTP/2 or WebSockets yet, no crypto primitives (blocked on the bit-ops-vs-builtins fork), observability is print/stderr — no metrics, tracing, or profiler; no debugger, no LSP (discussed, never built); deps are git-rev-only with no registry, no transitive resolution, no semver; blue-green deploy and schema migrations are recorded futures, not features.
- Proof maturity. 22's benchmark battery has never run — every number so far is a scratch measurement on one machine; TSan covers one demo; no fuzzing, no CI beyond local just, and the whole ecosystem is one framework, five samples, and one committed consumer. The honest summary: the architecture is ahead of the product — the doctrine bets (ownership+inference, actors, one binary, io_uring) are landing and measurable, while the surface a developer touches daily (types, tooling, ecosystem) is years behind the languages it benchmarks against.