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- new "Implementation order (sequenced 2026-08-20)" section in 00-status.md pending bucket: 7-finish, 17, 9g, 14, 9c/9d, 9e, 8, 9f, 11, 10, 12, 13 + parked drain - forcing rules recorded: 9f after 8+9e; 9c precedes 10; 9d folds into 9c; 12 after 9+10; 11 rides 8's scheduler; h2c behind 8/9f/11; post-12 park directive unchanged - 9e placed before 8 so restructure/perf work has a signed baseline - 14 early as next driving workload (stdlib-shaped, shard-independent) - story 00-story.md notes point at the sequenced list Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Status board — what is done, what is next
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The single place to learn where this project stands. Organised in six buckets:
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**stories** (the narrative arc), **in progress**, **done**, **pending**,
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**discarded**, **learnings**. The buckets are **sections of this board, not
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folders** — a doc stays where it was authored when its work lands; only its
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banner and this board change. Every plan and phase doc opens with a
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`> **Status:**` banner linking back here; normative contracts
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(`plan/oop-vm/`), exploration studies, reference docs and the
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discarded/learnings registers carry none by design.
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Update this board in the same change that finishes work — move the item to done
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with _what actually landed_, set the next in-progress item, and record any
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rejection in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) with its reason.
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Statuses: ✅ **done** · 🔄 **in progress** · ⬜ **pending** · ⏸ **hold**
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---
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## ▶ NEXT PLAN
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**Make log-watcher executable — nothing else.** The compile-and-run half of the
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language track is met (2026-08-14): the sample compiles with zero diagnostics,
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`woc build` produces a 106 KB standalone binary, and all three modes work —
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`watch` alerts on a live file, `run` schedules a cron.d entry, `mcp` answers
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JSON-RPC with all four tools returning `isError:false`. `just log-watcher`
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gates it: 6 checks, 0 failures.
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What is left is the difference between "it runs" and "you can leave it
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running", and every item below came from a measurement on the sample itself:
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1. ~~The ownership pass does not know what the stdlib returns~~ — **done
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2026-08-14**. The root cause was deeper than the table: `Text` was
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classified Copy, so no Text local was ever dropped. `Text` is now an owned
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heap value that is **copied at every ownership boundary** (container, field,
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return, binding, loop cursor), the ownership pass reads the stdlib, builtin
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and static tables, and `fs.read_all`/`net.read` no longer mis-size a short
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read's buffer. Measured: `run` **1 051 040 B → 2 112 B**, `watch`
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**128 B → 64 B**; what remains is items 2 and 3 below, by stack.
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2. ~~A projected temporary is never dropped~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The
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projection was one of six shapes with no owner: a call result compared
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against `nil`, an argument the callee only borrows, a container read's
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copy, a loop's iterable, a projected record, and any of those escaped by a
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`return` from inside the statement that built them. Measured: `run`
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**2 112 B → 64 B** and flat from 8 s to 20 s, the full MCP mix
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**21 312 B / 63 → 64 B / 1**, every handler flat from 2 to 6 requests. The
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64 bytes left are item 3, on every path.
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3. ~~The runtime leaks its own argv container~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The
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entry only borrows its arguments, so `main.c` releases the container it
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built, after the entry returns and after a trap alike. **All three modes
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now report ZERO leaks under ASan** — `watch`, `run`, and the full MCP mix —
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which is the clean baseline item 6's soak needs to read against.
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4. ~~A stopping program does not stop~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. A blocking
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call that parks (`net.accept`, socket read/write, `time.sleep`, a child
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wait) now ends the program when it is interrupted with the stop flag set,
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instead of restarting the syscall. A stop is not a trap: `try` cannot
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swallow it, and the stack unwinds through the same drop machinery, so the
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exit is clean and leak-free in every mode. It also uncovered a real
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double-free: an **assignment** of a Text place was a move, not a copy, so
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`api_key = j.mcp.apiKey` aliased the record — `let` copied, assignment now
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does too. `just log-watcher` is 7 checks; the seventh is the stop.
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5. ~~The MCP server never closes an accepted connection~~ — **done
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2026-08-15**. `net.close` on every path out of a serve iteration (and the
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listener on stop). Measured: 4 → 4 descriptors across 200 requests, was
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one leaked per request.
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6. ~~Nothing soaks~~ — **done 2026-08-15**. `LW_SOAK=<seconds>` drives all
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three modes under load and fails on resident growth past 256 KiB or any
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descriptor growth. The soak immediately caught what every seconds-long
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check missed: ~1.6 MiB/min of **in-arena** leaks the ASan report cannot
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see (the arena is one allocation to LeakSanitizer). Five bugs fell out:
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json decode's worst-case string sizing (free lists poisoned by relabeled
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lengths), `!=` never dropping fresh operands, Int interpolation segments
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mistaken for borrows, `json.encode(Ctor{...})`'s unowned argument, and
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discarded statement results (`pop(lines);`). After: release soak 30 s per
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mode — watch 0, run 0, mcp +20 KiB, descriptors flat; ASan build flat at
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14 600 KiB across 601 686 requests in 90 s once past its ~1200-request
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quarantine warm-up.
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Plan: [`plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md`](plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md) ·
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Story slice: [`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md`](stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md)
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**Deferred by name, with the measurement that says so:**
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- Iteration 5's *strictness* half — **`?T` forced handling landed 2026-08-18**
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(WO-E211/212/213 + local narrowing; the samples were updated to the
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bind-then-narrow idiom and stay green), **reject rows landed 2026-08-18**
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(WO-E105 doctrine diagnostics — `super.f()` used to compile clean). Still
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open: `pub(read)` write enforcement, `using`, `#if`. Plan 8 stays open.
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- Everything `@gc`: iteration 7b, `set`'s `@gc` retention gap, iteration 4's
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`gc/held-cycle` leak. The sample declares **no `@gc` class** — 35 classes,
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none with the gc flag, 0 `RC_INC`/`RC_DEC` against 78 `DROP`s — so none of it
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can affect this workload.
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- Iterations 8–12 (shard-actor runtime, database engine, `@table`/query, HTTP
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layer, fibers, blue-green): unchanged, and unblocked by this plan.
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The project is the **language track**: iterations 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7, ending at
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_compile and run log-watcher_, then the database engine (9/9b) and beyond. (The
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prior Rust `wo` runtime was removed from the repo 2026-08-18 — see
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[`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md).)
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---
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## Stories
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[`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/`](stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md)
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— one language, one runtime, one database, one binary. Twelve iterations, each
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an unsplittable slice with Given/When/Then acceptance and a pointer to the plan
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that sequences its tasks. Read one, approve, then the next starts.
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| # | Iteration | State |
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| --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ---- |
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| 1 | [Principles doc](stories/language-runtime-database/01-principles-doc.md) | ✅ |
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| 2 | [VM core (`wovm`)](stories/language-runtime-database/02-vm-core.md) | ✅ |
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| 3 | [Compiler front (`woc`)](stories/language-runtime-database/03-compiler-front.md) | ✅ (known gaps below) |
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| 4 | [Single binary end-to-end](stories/language-runtime-database/04-single-binary-e2e.md) | ✅ (known gaps below) |
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| 5 | [Language surface](stories/language-runtime-database/05-language-surface.md) | 🔄 grammar done; **`?T` forced handling ✅ + reject rows ✅ + WO-E205 ✅ (2026-08-18)**; `pub(read)`/`using`/`#if` still ⏸ |
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| 6 | [Program mode + stdlib](stories/language-runtime-database/06-program-mode-stdlib.md) | ✅ (the surface log-watcher uses) |
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| 7 | [log-watcher proof](stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md) | 🔄 **runs; executable in progress** |
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| 7b | [Inferred GC + mark-sweep](stories/language-runtime-database/07b-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-18** — `@gc` gone (WO-E104), GC-ness inferred, RC replaced by incremental mark-sweep, `.wob` v4; supersedes iteration 2's RC memory model |
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| 8 | [Shard-actor runtime](stories/language-runtime-database/08-shard-actor-runtime.md) | ⬜ |
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| 9 | [Database engine](stories/language-runtime-database/09-database-engine.md) | 🔄 engine complete (storage/WAL/indexes/insert-update-delete); reads land with 9b |
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| 9b | [`@table`, relations, query](stories/language-runtime-database/09b-table-relations-query.md) | 🔄 query surface + relations + FK done (branch query-surface); group-by parked |
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| 9c | [Cross-program tables](stories/language-runtime-database/09c-cross-program-tables.md) | 🔄 channel done (branch ipc-attach); manifest+binding pending |
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| 9d | [Keypair attach auth](stories/language-runtime-database/09d-keypair-attach-auth.md) | 🔄 crypto+handshake done (branch keypair-auth); manifest pending |
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| 9e | [Durability, throughput, scale](stories/language-runtime-database/09e-durability-throughput-scale.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first |
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| 9f | [io_uring group-commit](stories/language-runtime-database/09f-io-uring-commit.md) | ⬜ after 8 + 9e |
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| 9g | [Query grammar corpus](stories/language-runtime-database/09g-query-grammar-corpus.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first |
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| 10 | [HTTP service layer](stories/language-runtime-database/10-http-service.md) | ⬜ | Hold |
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| 11 | [Fibers](stories/language-runtime-database/11-fibers.md) | ⬜ | Hold |
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| 12 | [Blue-green deploy](stories/language-runtime-database/12-blue-green-deploy.md) | ⬜ | Hold |
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| 13 | [Compile-time metaprogramming](stories/language-runtime-database/13-compile-time-metaprogramming.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first |
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| 14 | [skillhost host workload](stories/language-runtime-database/14-skillhost-host-workload.md) | ⬜ gaps recorded (branch query-grammar found skillhost needs no new query grammar); each gap a candidate iteration |
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| 15 | [deps: `wo.toml [deps]`](stories/language-runtime-database/15-deps-package-manager.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-18** (branch web-framework): [deps] inline tables, git-binary fetch, wo.lock pinning, offline-when-locked, --update-deps, WO-E106/E107; `just deps-accept` 8/0 |
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| 16 | [web framework](stories/language-runtime-database/16-web-framework.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-19** — writeonce-framework (HTTP/1.1 + router + Handler/Middleware) consumed by web-app through [deps]; `just web-app` 14/0; h2c parked (§C) behind 8/9f/11 |
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| 17 | [library projects + `internal/`](stories/language-runtime-database/17-library-projects-internal.md) | ⬜ **forks settled 2026-08-20, awaiting spec/plan**: kind = "library" manifest key; Go internal/ rule, dep-boundary-only; lib+bin dual; VM/GC untouched by design (impact analysis in the iteration) |
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---
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## In progress
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| Track | Item | Where |
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| -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Language | Iteration 7 — make log-watcher executable (leaks, stop signal, fd lifetime, soak) | [executable plan](plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md) |
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Off-critical-path work is parked by explicit scope directive (2026-08-08).
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### Landed 2026-08-14 — the compile-and-run milestone
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One session, driven end to end by compiling `docs/examples/log-watcher` and
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watching its diagnostic count fall (481 → 0). In order:
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- **let annotations, container literals, statics, `pub(read)`** — `let x: multi
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Text = []`, `map<K, V>`, `?T`; `[]`/`[a, b]`/`{}` as expressions; `static
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const`/`static fn` with `Cls.fn(...)` calls; a `;` ends a statement so
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one-line guard bodies parse.
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- **try/catch over the trap system** (plan 8 Task 5) — VM catch frames
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(`TRY`/`ENDTRY`), unwind-to-handler with the try region's own values
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released, `err_fill` for the `{code, line, method, msg}` record, expression
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and block catch arms. Uncaught traps unchanged.
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- **`nil` + 23 text/container builtins** — len, byte_at, print_err,
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starts_with/ends_with, index_of/last_index_of, substr, trim, to_lower,
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char_of, parse_int, split/split_ws, join, slice, pop/shift, sort, reverse,
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remove, key_at/val_at, multi_set.
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- **`for k, v in m`** over a map, and `m[i] = v` for a `multi`.
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- **the systems stdlib's OS half** (`runtime/src/sysio.c`) — fs, time, env,
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net, proc behind the reserved module names, with predeclared `Stat`,
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`TimeParts` and `Proc` records and the new `WO_T_IO` trap.
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- **json** (`runtime/src/json.c`) + **`.wob` v2** — per-field names, referenced
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classes and element kinds in the class table, so encode/decode are one
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metadata-driven implementation; `json.decode(t) as T` is the language's only
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cast, yielding `?T`.
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- **program mode** — `fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int`, argv delivered by the
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runtime, return value as the exit code.
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- **two safety fixes found by running it**: `+` on `Text` was lowering to ADD
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on two heap pointers (now WO-E201 pointing at `..`; seven sites in the sample
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were corrected), and `x == nil` was lowering to EQS, which dereferences the
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zero word (now EQ).
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Gates at the end of that session: corpus 71/0, `woc` runtest 565/0, every
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`wovm` unit gate green in both dispatch flavors.
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---
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## Done
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### Language track — compiler + VM (OOP track)
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| Status | Item | Doc | What actually landed |
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| ------ | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| ✅ | Principles | [`../00-principles.md`](00-principles.md) | 13 principles, each with a why and a link to the doc that enforces it |
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| ✅ | `wovm` VM core | [plan 1](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-wob-format-and-vm-core.md) | `.wob` v1 loader with full static validation, register interpreter (computed-goto + ISO-C fallback), arena with size-class free lists, borrow word, RC + budgeted Bacon–Rajan cycle collector, drop-map trap unwinding, containers, builtins, ICALL, CLI. 13 suites × 2 dispatch flavors + CLI smoke, ASan/UBSan clean |
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| ✅ | `.wob` format contract | [`oop-vm/00-wob-format.md`](plan/oop-vm/00-wob-format.md) | Normative; twinned with `runtime/src/wob.h` |
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| ✅ | `woc` compiler front | [plan 2](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-woc-compiler-front.md) | Tasks 1–8: dune scaffold, `diag` (WO-E codes, two-site related errors, ordered dedup), newline-significant lexer at rt parity, declaration + statement/expression parser with skip-on-block and multi-error recovery, typechecker (field kinds, `?T` plumbing, W201, E225, E214), MVS ownership pass with the four emitter tables, driver with directory discovery + cross-file programs. 14 + 264 checks |
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| ✅ | Error catalog | [`oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`](plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md) | 14 emitted codes + 10 reserved, each with the reason it is not yet emitted |
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| ✅ | log-watcher `.wo` sample | [`../examples/log-watcher/`](examples/log-watcher/README.md) | Eight-file port authored docs-first with its `.hx` mapping table; compiles for real in iteration 7 |
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| ✅ | Scalar cleanup | [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) | `Money`/`SKU`/`Float` and the abstract allowlist removed; `abstract` flipped adopt → reject |
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| ✅ | `woc` emitter, corpus, single binary | [plan 3](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-wob-emit-e2e-single-binary.md) | Tasks 1–6 + 8 (Task 7, a parity harness against the Rust runtime, **deferred by explicit user decision** — the two stacks diverge by design). Bytecode emitter (`emit.ml`) + disassembler (`disasm.ml`, `--dump-bc`); three-kind conformance harness (`scripts/oop-e2e.sh`, `just oop-e2e`) over `tests/corpus/{run,compile-fail,trap,gc}`; pricing-demo + ownership/trap corpora (19 fixtures); `@gc` cycle collector's post-exit pump (`WO_GC_BUDGET`/`WO_GC_TRACE`) + 2 gc fixtures (`gc/held-cycle` retired — see criterion-3 closure below); `woc build` single-binary output + relocation/corrupt-trailer smoke; `WO-E405` closing criterion 3's ASan leak (entry must return `Int`); `just oop-accept` wiring all five spec criteria + both unit gates into one command. 14 + 399 compiler checks; `oop-e2e` 25/25 against the release `wovm`. **Milestone-1 acceptance gate is fully green — all five criteria met** (see the dated acceptance note in `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-oop-compiler-vm-design.md`) |
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**Known gaps carried out of iteration 3** — recorded, not silently owed:
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- **`?T` is plumbed but unenforced.** Lexer/token/AST/parser/dump all handle
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`?T`; the semantics do not exist (`WO-E211`/`E212`/`E213` declared, never
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emitted — a probe returning `?Int` as `Int` exits 0). Owned by iteration 5,
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plan 8 Task 6, which is that iteration's first task because it blocks the
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log-watcher port. See [`compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md`](plan/compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md).
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- **Structural interface satisfaction is not checked** (`WO-E205` dead), along
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with type mismatch, bad arity, and unknown-fn (`E201`/`E203`/`E204`) — all
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named in plan 2 Task 6's own must-fail list. Gaps in shipped work, catalogued
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as reserved.
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- Six further narrowings (W201 heuristic, E225 reach, dead code after `return`,
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unresolved-callee drops, RC table ordering, residual b-side role) are listed
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in the plan-2 SDD ledger and in the affected files' own comments.
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**Known gaps carried out of iteration 4** — recorded, not silently owed:
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- ~~`WO-E205` (unsatisfied interface) reachable but unenforced~~ — **closed
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2026-08-18** (branch `type-enforcement`): structural satisfaction is checked
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at call arguments, annotated `let`s, and returns; the pinned fixture moved
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to `compile-fail/unsatisfied-interface` with `fixture.code WO-E205` in the
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same change, as its comment demanded. The hybrid boundary is restored.
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- **`set(m, k, v)`'s `@gc` retention gap on map keys/values is open** — the
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twin of the `push` bug Task 5 fixed for `multi`. `set` has no equivalent
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special case in `owner.ml`'s `analyze_call`, so a `@gc` key or value handed
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to `set` is under-counted and the collector can free it while the map still
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points at it. Nothing in the corpus exercises this yet. See
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[`oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`](plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md).
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**Known gaps carried out of the 2026-08-14 compile-and-run milestone** —
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recorded, not silently owed:
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- **Optionals are lenient.** `?T` has its representation (the zero word) and
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its comparisons, but `WO-E211`–`E213` are still dead: a `?T` may be used
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where `T` is required, and nothing narrows inside an `if x != nil` branch.
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The workload leans on that leniency today.
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- **`pub(read)` is parsed, not enforced.** The marker rides on the field
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(`Ast.field.pub_read`); no check refuses a write from outside the declaring
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class yet.
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- **`using` extensions and `#if` build flags are absent**, and the reject rows
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(`extends`/`cast`/`Dynamic`/…) still have no doctrine-citing diagnostics —
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plan 8 Tasks 7–8's remainder.
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- ~~A borrowed non-constant Text pushed into a container is a double-free
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hazard~~ — **closed 2026-08-14 by copy-on-push**: `push`/`set`/`m[i] = v`
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copy a TEXT element, key or value into the container, and the compiler drops
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a *freshly built* Text right after the call (a value read out of a place
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keeps its owner). The failure it fixed was real: a `tools/call` of `tail_log`
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used to answer `{"isError":true,"text":"tool failed: not a text value"}`; all
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four MCP tools now return `isError:false` with correct payloads.
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`OWNED`/`GCREF` elements still move, and `set`'s `@gc` retention gap is still
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open (see [`oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`](plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md)).
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- **A blocking `accept`/`read` swallows SIGTERM.** `env.stopping()` installs a
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handler that only sets a flag, and `net.accept`/`net.read` retry on `EINTR`,
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so a server parked in `accept` never observes it: a plain TERM does not stop
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the process (`timeout -k` / `kill -9` does). Graceful shutdown needs an
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interruptible wait — the shard-actor runtime's event loop (iteration 8) is
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where that belongs, not a patch to the blocking calls.
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- **A temporary record whose field is iterated is never dropped** —
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`for e in parse_dir(dir).entries` keeps the entries alive (good) but leaks
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the `ParseResult` shell (its drop is recorded for no register). Found in the
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same disassembly; a leak, not a corruption.
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- ~~json's two documented limits~~ — **closed 2026-08-18** (branch
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`json-fidelity`): a `Bool` field encodes `true`/`false` (WOB_FIELD_BOOL /
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WOB_FIELD_NIL_BOOL in the field metadata), and a fraction/exponent is
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malformed for an Int field — the checked decode yields nil instead of
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truncating (floats stay representable via a raw `json.Value` field).
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- **`net` fd lifetime is the program's problem.** `net.close` exists; the
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sample's MCP server never calls it, so a long-running `mcp` session leaks
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descriptors. That is the sample's bug to fix, not the runtime's.
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- **The workload has never run under ASan**, and iteration 4's `gc/held-cycle`
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leak (above) is still open. The corpus itself stays ASan-clean.
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- ~~`json.encode` Bool/nil-scalar asymmetry~~ — **closed 2026-08-18** with the
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same change: `Bool` encodes `true`/`false`, `?Bool` nil encodes `null`.
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- **No corpus fixtures cover the new surface.** By explicit direction
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(2026-08-14) the acceptance for this work is the log-watcher program itself,
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not fixture pairs; `tests/corpus/` still gates every pre-existing behavior
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(71 checks, 0 failures).
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- **E201/E203 and seven other `WO-E2xx` codes remain declared but unemitted**
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— see [`oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`](plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md).
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- **CLOSED — milestone-1's ASan gate (`just oop-accept`) failing on
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`gc/held-cycle`.** Root cause (Task 8's finding, restated): `main.c`'s
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entry-method return value (`uint64_t ret`, `src/main.c:158`) is stored
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but never released, so `gc/held-cycle`'s "permanent external hold" was
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actually a permanent refcount inflation — LeakSanitizer's "definite
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leak" (1184 bytes / 3 allocations) was correctly reporting exactly
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that, not a false positive. Fixing it by releasing `ret` was rejected:
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the `.wob` method table carries no return-type/kind metadata, so
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`main.c` has no way to know `ret` is a pointer rather than a scalar,
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and adding that metadata is a format change out of scope here. Fixed
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instead at the source: the systems-track spec already requires the
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entry to return `Int` (its return value is the process exit code), so
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a class-returning `main` was never legal — `WO-E405`
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(`compiler/src/emit.ml`, `01-error-catalog.md`) now rejects it at
|
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compile time, and `gc/held-cycle` is retired because its premise (an
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externally-held cycle survives a _post-exit_ pump) is no longer
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expressible — see `oop-vm/02-corpus.md`'s "Retired" note for why, and
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for where the scenario it meant to cover is actually proven
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(`runtime/test/test_cycle.c`, plus a proper in-flight fixture scheduled
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for story iteration 7b). Spec success criterion 3 is now **MET**;
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`just oop-accept` passes all five criteria.
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||
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The C proving-ground work (`exploration/c-runtime/`, phases A–F: 859k reads/s,
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618k durable commits/s) fed the current C runtime and remains as an
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[exploration study](plan/exploration/c-runtime/00-plan.md).
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||
|
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---
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## Pending
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### Implementation order (sequenced 2026-08-20)
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Dependency-derived order for everything not yet landed. Rules that force it:
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9f explicitly after 8 + 9e; 9c "precedes iteration 10"; 9d's plan folds into
|
||
9c's; 12 only after 9 + 10 (catalog to diff, HTTP to build on); 11 rides 8's
|
||
shard scheduler; h2c parked behind 8/9f/11; the post-12 parked list stays
|
||
parked by the 2026-08-08 scope directive.
|
||
|
||
1. **7 finish** — in progress (executable plan: leaks, stop signal, fd
|
||
lifetime, soak); the locked critical path ends here.
|
||
2. **17** — forks settled, compiler-driver-only, no runtime deps; kills the
|
||
framework's `--emit` wart while iteration 16 is fresh. (Merge the
|
||
`web-framework` branch first.)
|
||
3. **9g** — likely collapses to "confirm `len(query)` + add `exists`"; the
|
||
skillhost corpus already showed no new grammar; do before 14 consumes it.
|
||
4. **14** — skillhost port, the next driving workload (log-watcher's role for
|
||
host capabilities); stdlib-shaped, independent of shards;
|
||
bounded-subprocess gap first.
|
||
5. **9c then 9d** — finish the half-done branches (ipc-attach: manifest +
|
||
binding; keypair-auth: manifest) while DB context is warm; 9d folds into
|
||
9c's plan; both must precede 10.
|
||
6. **9e** — the measurement backbone; baseline single-shard BEFORE the
|
||
runtime restructure so 8/9f have numbers to sign against.
|
||
7. **8** — shard-actor; the big structural move; precondition (collector
|
||
settled, 7b) already met; unblocks 9f, 11, h2c.
|
||
8. **9f** — io_uring group-commit; explicitly after 8 + 9e.
|
||
9. **11** — fibers on the shard scheduler; keeps VM-core work contiguous
|
||
with 8/9f (same dispatch/io seams).
|
||
10. **10** — HTTP service layer; after 9c by its own precedence note;
|
||
lowers `service` blocks onto the iteration-16 framework.
|
||
11. **12** — blue-green; prerequisites 9 + 10 now exist.
|
||
12. **13 + parked drain** — metaprogramming (spec first), then h2c,
|
||
group-by, `pub(read)`/`using`/`#if`, ADT roster, WO-E225 — all held
|
||
behind 12 by the scope directive.
|
||
|
||
### Language track — sequenced, on the critical path
|
||
|
||
| # | Item | Plan |
|
||
| --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|
||
| 5 | Haxe-parity language surface — **`?T` forced handling first**, then switch expressions, records, enum payloads, try/catch, statics, `using`, modules, `is`, `pub(read)`, `#if` | [plan 8](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-haxe-parity-language.md) |
|
||
| 6 | Program mode + systems stdlib — `fn main`, exit codes, `fs`/`proc`/`net`/`time`/`json` | [plan 9](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-program-mode-stdlib.md) |
|
||
| 7 | log-watcher proof — the sample compiles and detects a silent death live | [plan 10](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-log-watcher-sample.md) |
|
||
| 8 | Shard-actor runtime | [plan 4](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-shard-actor-vm-runtime.md) |
|
||
| 9 | Database engine binding | [plan 5](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md) |
|
||
| 9b | `@table` + relations + language-integrated query — comprehension queries, `ref`/`backlink` navigation, GroupBy aggregates; acceptance: new `docs/examples/employee` sample | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-15-table-relations-query-design.md) · [plan](plan/compiler/2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md) |
|
||
| 9c | Cross-program tables — attach to a running program's database (IPC string in wo.toml, manifest-granted rights, owner stays the single writer) | **no spec yet** — four open forks recorded in the iteration; brainstorm before planning |
|
||
| 9d | Keypair attach auth — mutual challenge–response, grants name public keys, uid superseded | **no spec yet** — four forks recorded; plan folds into 9c's |
|
||
| 9e | Durability + throughput + scale — restart-persistence, read/write benchmark, ~1M rows; the gate every later optimization re-runs | **no spec yet** — four forks recorded; the measurement backbone |
|
||
| 9f | io_uring group-commit write path — batched durability overlapped on shard threads, fsync fallback | **no spec yet** — brainstorm after iterations 8 + 9e |
|
||
| 9g | Query grammar from real embedded-DB corpora — whole-query count + correlated exists, driven by the skillhost SQL catalogue; add only what a corpus uses | **no spec yet** — three forks; may collapse to "confirm len(query) + add exists" |
|
||
| 14 | skillhost host workload — port skillhost (MCP host + confined script runner) to writeonce; drives the missing host capabilities into the open (bounded subprocess, stdin/stdout transport, fs metadata, FFI-vs-out-of-process) | **no spec yet** — gaps recorded in the iteration; each gap brainstormed on demand, bounded-subprocess first |
|
||
| 17 | library projects + dependency privacy — `wo.toml` kind = "library" (checkable without entry, dual lib+bin) + Go-style `internal/` at the [deps] boundary; framework reorg demonstrates both | **forks settled 2026-08-20** — decisions + framework/compiler/VM/GC impact in the iteration; spec/plan next |
|
||
| 10 | HTTP service layer | [plan 6](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-http-service-layer.md) |
|
||
| 11 | Fibers | vision §3, [blue-green exploration](plan/exploration/blue-green-vm/00-vision.md) |
|
||
| 12 | Blue-green deploy | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-03-blue-green-vm-design.md) — plan authored after iterations 9–10 |
|
||
|
||
### Language track — parked until after iteration 12
|
||
|
||
Recorded 2026-08-08 by scope directive; nothing here lands before the
|
||
log-watcher proof.
|
||
|
||
- `WO-W201` `@gc`-suggestion refinement beyond the self-reference heuristic
|
||
- `WO-E225` broadened to `ref`/`multi`/`map` element types and fn signatures
|
||
- ADT container roster adoption (Stack, Queue, Set, Tree, Graph, …) — see the
|
||
roster in [`compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md`](plan/compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md)
|
||
- Web framework as a `.wo` library; UI (`##ui` SSR + live patches);
|
||
script-based destructive migrations; MCP/agent wrapper over the management plane
|
||
- `throw` (explicit raise) — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload
|
||
(log-watcher); catch frames ship without it
|
||
- `time.mono` — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload; returns when a
|
||
workload needs monotonic math
|
||
- `is` — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload; emptied plan 8's old
|
||
Task 7, which is deleted rather than deferred
|
||
|
||
### Frontend — removed as stale (2026-08-17)
|
||
|
||
The `##ui` / `.htmlx` LiveView frontend track — 13d pricing UI, the 14-MVC-UI
|
||
implementation plan, the 7-of-7 `ui-htmlx-live` plan, and the 9-doc
|
||
`plan/exploration/ui/` design set — was **removed**. It was built entirely on
|
||
the non-advancing Rust runtime (`.dev/reference/crates/wo-htmlx`, `cargo run`,
|
||
WebSocket live-patches) and contradicts the current woc/wovm direction. Recorded
|
||
in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md).
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Discarded
|
||
|
||
Settled rejections with their reasons live in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) —
|
||
inheritance, `abstract` newtypes, `Money`/`SKU`/`Float`, `Dynamic`/`cast`/
|
||
`macro`/`extern`, AOT-to-C, Menhir, shared mutable engine state, external
|
||
deployer daemon, destructive migrations in v1, and more. Argue against the
|
||
recorded reason rather than re-opening an entry as new.
|
||
|
||
## Learnings
|
||
|
||
What attempts taught, shipped or not, in [`learnings.md`](plan/learnings.md) —
|
||
plumbed-is-not-enforced, vacuously-passing goldens, exit-0-with-wrong-output,
|
||
the malloc-path ASan trick, deferred checks that never reach the runtime,
|
||
validate-once-at-the-boundary, and reference-implement-in-C-first.
|