New article at /sx/(applications.(native-browser)) describing the vision
for a native SX desktop browser that renders s-expressions directly to
pixels via Cairo + SDL2, bypassing HTML/CSS/JS entirely.
Covers: architecture, 15-primitive platform interface, the strange loop
(browser written in SX), adoption path alongside the web, and the POC
counter demo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
nav-etc.sx had its own plans-nav-items (35 entries) that loaded after
nav-data.sx (36 entries) and silently overwrote it, hiding sx-host.
All nav items are now solely defined in nav-data.sx.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two new demo pages with live interactive islands:
Cyst (/geography/reactive/examples/cyst):
Parent island with a cyst inside. Parent + button increments parent
count, cyst + button increments cyst count. Cyst state survives
parent re-renders. Shows the isolation boundary in action.
Reactive Expressions (/geography/reactive/examples/reactive-expressions):
Temperature signal with 5 expression types all updating live:
bare deref, str+deref, arithmetic+deref, full conversion string,
conditional. Demonstrates that any expression containing deref
auto-tracks signal dependencies.
Both verified reactive with Playwright clicks on the live server.
Nav entries added to reactive-examples-nav-items.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two paren bugs in home-stepper.sx caused the home page to render blank:
1. Line 222 had one extra ) that prematurely closed the letrec bindings
list — rebuild-preview and do-back became body expressions instead
of bindings, making them undefined in scope.
2. Lines 241-308 were outside the let/letrec scope entirely — the outer
let closed at line 240, so freeze-scope, cookie restore, source
parsing, and the entire div rendering tree had no access to signals
or letrec functions.
Also hardens defisland to wrap multi-expression bodies in (begin ...),
matching the Python-side fix from 9f0c541. Both spec/evaluator.sx and
the OCaml transpiled sx_ref.ml are updated.
Adds SX Tools essay under Applications — the revised plan for structural
tree reading/editing tools for .sx files, motivated by this exact bug.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Promotes reactive-runtime from a plan page to a full applications section
with 7 nav items (ref, foreign FFI, state machines, commands, render loop,
keyed lists, app shell) and its own page function.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three issues in the stepper island's client-side rendering:
1. do-step used eval-expr with empty env for ~cssx/tw spreads — component
not found, result leaked as [object Object]. Fixed: call ~cssx/tw
directly (in scope from island env) with trampoline.
2. steps-to-preview excluded spreads — SSR preview had no styling.
Fixed: include spreads in the tree so both SSR and client render
with CSSX classes.
3. build-children used named let (let loop ...) which produces
unresolved Thunks in render mode due to the named-let compiler
desugaring interacting with the render/eval boundary. Fixed:
rewrote as plain recursive function bc-loop avoiding named let.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ocaml_bridge: 10MB readline buffer for large spec explorer responses
- nav-data: evaluator.sx filename (was eval.sx, actual spec file is evaluator.sx)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major architectural change: page function dispatch and handler execution
now go through the OCaml kernel instead of the Python bootstrapped evaluator.
OCaml integration:
- Page dispatch: bridge.eval() evaluates SX URL expressions (geography, marshes, etc.)
- Handler aser: bridge.aser() serializes handler responses as SX wire format
- _ensure_components loads all .sx files into OCaml kernel (spec, web adapter, handlers)
- defhandler/defpage registered as no-op special forms so handler files load
- helper IO primitive dispatches to Python page helpers + IO handlers
- ok-raw response format for SX wire format (no double-escaping)
- Natural list serialization in eval (no (list ...) wrapper)
- Clean pipe: _read_until_ok always sends io-response on error
SX adapter (aser):
- scope-emit!/scope-peek aliases to avoid CEK special form conflict
- aser-fragment/aser-call: strings starting with "(" pass through unserialized
- Registered cond-scheme?, is-else-clause?, primitive?, get-primitive in kernel
- random-int, parse-int as kernel primitives; json-encode, into via IO bridge
Handler migration:
- All IO calls converted to (helper "name" args...) pattern
- request-arg, request-form, state-get, state-set!, now, component-source etc.
- Fixed bare (effect ...) in island bodies leaking disposer functions as text
- Fixed lower-case → lower, ~search-results → ~examples/search-results
Reactive islands:
- sx-hydrate-islands called after client-side navigation swap
- force-dispose-islands-in for outerHTML swaps (clears hydration markers)
- clear-processed! platform primitive for re-hydration
Content restructuring:
- Design, event bridge, named stores, phase 2 consolidated into reactive overview
- Marshes split into overview + 5 example sub-pages
- Nav links use sx-get/sx-target for client-side navigation
Playwright test suite (sx/tests/test_demos.py):
- 83 tests covering hypermedia demos, reactive islands, marshes, spec explorer
- Server-side rendering, handler interactions, island hydration, navigation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each example is now a child nav item linking to its anchor on the
examples page. Event Bridge and Named Stores are sections within
Examples (they have live demos there), not separate pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove "Overview" nav link (index.sx IS the summary)
- Rename "Demo" → "Examples" in nav and page title
- Remove "Plan" and "Phase 2" from nav (all items done — status table remains in overview)
- Add "Marshes" to nav (was missing, content already existed)
- Add live event bridge demo island (data-sx-emit → signal via on-event)
- Add event bridge section (#14) to examples page
- Keep "demo" route as alias for backward compat
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Higher-order forms (map, filter, reduce, some, every?, for-each,
map-indexed) now evaluate their arguments via CEK frames instead
of nested trampoline(eval-expr(...)) calls.
Added HoSetupFrame — staged evaluation of HO form arguments.
When all args are evaluated, ho-setup-dispatch sets up the
iteration frame. This keeps a single linear CEK continuation
chain instead of spawning nested CEK instances.
14 nested eval-expr calls eliminated (39 → 25 remaining).
The remaining 25 are in delegate functions (sf-letrec, sf-scope,
parse-keyword-args, qq-expand, etc.) called infrequently.
All tests unchanged: JS 747/747, Full 864/870, Python 679/679.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dedicated page documenting and demonstrating content-addressed
computation. How it works, why it matters, the path to IPFS.
Live demo: counter + name widget with CID generation, history,
and restore-from-CID input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents and demonstrates serializable CEK state. Type an expression,
step to any point, click Freeze to see the frozen SX. Click Thaw to
resume from the frozen state and get the result.
- New page at /sx/(geography.(cek.freeze))
- Nav entry under CEK Machine
- Interactive island demo with step/run/freeze/thaw buttons
- Documentation: the idea, freeze format, thaw/resume, what it enables
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plato's allegory of the cave applied to web development: HTML/CSS/JS as
shadows on the wall, s-expressions as Forms, the bootstrapper as
demiurge, anamnesis as the wire format's efficiency, the divided line
as SX's rendering hierarchy, and the Form of the Good as the principle
that representation and thing represented should be identical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add frames.sx and cek.sx to the reactive spec registry with prose
- Add CEK Frames and CEK Machine under Specs → Reactive in nav
- Add Spec Explorer link under Language section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
All signal operations (computed, effect, batch, etc.) now dispatch
function calls through cek-call, which routes SX lambdas via cek-run
and native callables via apply. This replaces the invoke shim.
Key changes:
- cek.sx: add cek-call (defined before reactive-shift-deref), replace
invoke in subscriber disposal and ReactiveResetFrame handler
- signals.sx: replace all 11 invoke calls with cek-call
- js.sx: fix octal escape in js-quote-string (char-from-code 0)
- platform_js.py: fix JS append to match Python (list concat semantics),
add Continuation type guard in PLATFORM_CEK_JS, add scheduleIdle
safety check, module ordering (cek before signals)
- platform_py.py: fix ident-char regex (remove [ ] from valid chars),
module ordering (cek before signals)
- run_js_sx.py: emit PLATFORM_CEK_JS before transpiled spec files
- page-functions.sx: add cek and provide page functions for SX URLs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace hand-written serialize/sx_serialize/sx_parse in Python with
spec-derived versions from parser.sx. Add parser as a Python adapter
alongside html/sx/async — all 48 parser spec tests pass.
Add reactive runtime plan to sx-docs: 7 feature layers (ref, foreign
FFI, state machines, commands with undo/redo, render loops, keyed
lists, client-first app shell) — zero new platform primitives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
test-cek-reactive.sx: 9 tests across 4 suites — deref pass-through,
signal without reactive-reset, reactive-reset shift with continuation
capture, scope disposal cleanup. run_cek_reactive_tests.py: new runner
loading signals+frames+cek. Both test runners override sx_ref.eval_expr
back to tree-walk so interpreted .sx uses tree-walk internally.
Plan page added to sx-docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add `scope` special form to eval.sx: (scope name body...) or
(scope name :value v body...) — general dynamic scope primitive
- `provide` becomes sugar: (provide name value body...) calls scope
- Rename provide-push!/provide-pop! to scope-push!/scope-pop! throughout
all adapters (async, dom, html, sx) and platform implementations
- Update boundary.sx: Tier 5 now "Scoped effects" with scope-push!/
scope-pop! as primary, provide-push!/provide-pop! as aliases
- Add scope form handling to async adapter and aser wire format
- Update sx-browser.js, sx_ref.py (bootstrapped output)
- Add scopes.sx docs page, update provide/spreads/demo docs
- Update nav-data, page-functions, docs page definitions
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New geography article (provide.sx): four primitives, demos, nested scoping,
adapter comparison, spec explorer links
- Updated spreads article section VI: provide/emit! is now implemented, not planned
- Fixed foundations.sx: ~docs/code-block → ~docs/code (undefined component
was causing the page to silently fail to render)
- Added nav entry and defpage route for provide/emit! article
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add \uXXXX unicode escape support to parser.py and parser.sx spec
- Add char-from-code primitive (Python chr(), JS String.fromCharCode())
- Fix variadic infix operators in both bootstrappers (js.sx, py.sx) —
(+ a b c d) was silently dropping terms, now left-folds correctly
- Rebootstrap sx_ref.py and sx-browser.js with all fixes
- Fix 3 pre-existing map-dict test failures in shared/sx/tests/run.py
- Add live demos alongside examples in spreads essay (side-by-side layout)
- Add scoped-effects plan: algebraic effects as unified foundation for
spread/collect/island/lake/signal/context
- Add foundations plan: CEK machine, the computational floor, three-axis
model (depth/topology/linearity), Curry-Howard correspondence
- Route both plans in page-functions.sx and nav-data.sx
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the three orthogonal primitives (spread, collect!, reactive-spread),
their operation across server/client/morph boundaries, CSSX as use case,
semantic style variables, and the planned provide/context/emit! unification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Response to Nick Blow's article on JSON hypermedia and LLM agents.
Argues SX resolves the HTML-vs-JSON debate by being simultaneously
content, control, and code in one homoiconic format.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Component names now reflect filesystem location using / as path separator
and : as namespace separator for shared components:
~sx-header → ~layouts/header
~layout-app-body → ~shared:layout/app-body
~blog-admin-dashboard → ~admin/dashboard
209 files, 4,941 replacements across all services.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All routes moved under /sx/ prefix:
- / redirects to /sx/
- /sx/ serves home page
- /sx/<path:expr> is the catch-all for SX expression URLs
- Bare /(...) and /~... redirect to /sx/(...) and /sx/~...
- All ~600 hrefs, sx-get attrs, defhandler paths, redirect
targets, and blueprint routes updated across 44 files
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New comprehensive documentation for SX URLs at /(applications.(sx-urls))
covering dots-as-spaces, nesting/scoping, relative URLs, keyword ops,
delta values, special forms, hypermedia integration, and GraphSX.
Fix layout tagline: "A" → "The" framework-free reactive hypermedium.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends router.sx with the full SX URL algebra — structural navigation
(.slug, .., ...), keyword set/delta (.:page.4, .:page.+1), bare-dot
shorthand, and ! special form parsing (!source, !inspect, !diff, !search,
!raw, !json). All pure SX spec, bootstrapped to both Python and JS.
Fixes: index-of -1/nil portability (_index-of-safe wrapper), variadic
(+ a b c) transpilation bug (use nested binary +). Includes 115 passing
tests covering all operations. Also: "The" strapline and essay title.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On ontological uniformity, the metacircular web, and why address
and content should be made of the same stuff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New plan page at /etc/plans/spec-explorer describing the "fifth ring"
architecture: SX exploring itself through per-function cards showing
source, Python/JS/Z3 translations, platform deps, tests, proofs, and
usage examples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Specs nav reorganized from flat list into 6 sections with children:
Core (5), Adapters (4), Browser (4), Reactive (1), Host Interface (3),
Extensions (4). Added missing spec items: adapter-async, signals,
boundary, forms, page-helpers, types. Architecture page updated to
match. New essay on ars, techne, and the self-making artifact chain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Take HEAD's updated typed-sx content (deftype, effect system details)
with main's /etc/plans/ path prefix. Take main's newer sx-browser.js
timestamp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New hierarchy: Geography (Reactive Islands, Hypermedia Lakes, Marshes,
Isomorphism), Language (Docs, Specs, Bootstrappers, Testing),
Applications (CSSX, Protocols), Etc (Essays, Philosophy, Plans).
All routes updated to match: /reactive/* → /geography/reactive/*,
/docs/* → /language/docs/*, /essays/* → /etc/essays/*, etc.
Updates nav-data.sx, all defpage routes, API endpoints, internal links
across 43 files. Enhanced find-nav-match for nested group resolution.
Also includes: page-helpers-demo sf-total fix (reduce instead of set!),
rebootstrapped sx-browser.js and sx_ref.py, defensive slice/rest guards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add page-helpers-demo page with defisland ~demo-client-runner (pure SX,
zero JS files) showing spec functions running on both server and client
- Fix _aser_component children serialization: flatten list results from map
instead of serialize(list) which wraps in parens creating ((div ...) ...)
that re-parses as invalid function call. Fixed in adapter-async.sx spec
and async_eval_ref.py
- Switch _eval_slot to use async_eval_ref.py when SX_USE_REF=1 (was
hardcoded to async_eval.py)
- Add Island type support to async_eval_ref.py: import, SSR rendering,
aser dispatch, thread-first, defisland in _ASER_FORMS
- Add server affinity check: components with :affinity :server expand
even when _expand_components is False
- Add diagnostic _aser_stack context to EvalError messages
- New spec files: adapter-async.sx, page-helpers.sx, platform_js.py
- Bootstrappers: page-helpers module support, performance.now() timing
- 0-arity lambda event handler fix in adapter-dom.sx
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Rename /reactive-islands/ → /reactive/, /reference/ → /hypermedia/reference/,
/examples/ → /hypermedia/examples/ across all .sx and .py files
- Add 404 error page (not-found.sx) working on both server refresh and
client-side SX navigation via orchestration.sx error response handling
- Add trailing slash redirect (GET only, excludes /api/, /static/, /internal/)
- Remove blue sky-500 header bar from SX docs layout (conditional on header-rows)
- Fix 405 on API endpoints from trailing slash redirect hitting POST/PUT/DELETE
- Fix client-side 404: orchestration.sx now swaps error response content
instead of silently dropping it
- Add new plan files and home page component
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Client-rendered islands were re-hydrated by boot.sx because
renderDomIsland didn't mark them as processed. Hydration read
empty data-sx-state, overwriting kwargs (e.g. path) with NIL.
Fix: mark-processed! in adapter-dom.sx so boot skips them.
New plan: marshes — where reactivity and hypermedia interpenetrate.
Three patterns: server writes to signals, reactive marsh zones with
transforms, and signal-bound hypermedia interpretation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Islands survive hypermedia swaps: morph-node skips hydrated
data-sx-island elements when the same island exists in new content.
dispose-islands-in skips hydrated islands to prevent premature cleanup.
- @client directive: .sx files marked ;; @client send define forms to browser
- CSSX client-side: cssxgroup renamed (no hyphen) to avoid isRenderExpr
matching it as a custom element — was producing [object HTMLElement]
- Island wrappers: div→span to avoid block-in-inline HTML parse breakage
- ~sx-header is now a defisland with inline reactive colour cycling
- bootstrap_js.py defaults output to shared/static/scripts/sx-browser.js
- Deleted stale sx-ref.js (sx-browser.js is the canonical browser build)
- Hegelian Synthesis essay: dialectic of hypertext and reactivity
- component-source helper handles Island types for docs pretty-printing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the self-hosting process for js.sx including the G0 bug
where Python's `if fn_expr` treated 0/False/"" as falsy, emitting
NIL instead of the correct value. Adds live verification page,
translation differences table, and nav entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
