Mirrors bootstrap_js.py pattern — reads the .sx reference spec files
(eval.sx, render.sx, adapter-html.sx) and emits a standalone Python
evaluator module (sx_ref.py) that can be compared against the
hand-written evaluator.py / html.py.
Key transpilation techniques:
- Nested IIFE lambdas for let bindings: (lambda a: body)(val)
- _sx_case helper for case/type dispatch
- Short-circuit and/or via Python ternaries
- Functions with set! emitted as def with _cells dict for mutation
- for-each with inline fn emitted as Python for loops
- Statement-level cond emitted as if/elif/else chains
Passes 27/27 comparison tests against hand-written evaluator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes for sx-browser.js (spec-compiled) vs sx.js (hand-written):
1. CSS meta tag mismatch: initCssTracking read meta[name="sx-css-hash"]
but the page template uses meta[name="sx-css-classes"]. This left
_cssHash empty, causing the server to send ALL CSS as "new" on every
navigation, appending duplicate rules that broke Tailwind responsive
ordering (e.g. menu bar layout).
2. Stale verb info after morph: execute-request used captured verbInfo
from bind time. After morph updated element attributes (e.g. during
OOB nav swap), click handlers still fired with old URLs. Now re-reads
verb info from the element first, matching sx.js behavior.
Also includes: render-expression dispatch in eval.sx, NIL guard for
preload cache in bootstrap_js.py, and helpers.py switched to
sx-browser.js.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
engine.sx now contains only pure logic: parsing, morph, swap, headers,
retry, target resolution, etc. orchestration.sx contains the browser
wiring: request execution, trigger binding, SSE, boost, post-swap
lifecycle, and init. Dependency is one-way: orchestration → engine.
Bootstrap compiler gains "orchestration" as a separate adapter with
deps on engine+dom. Engine-only builds get morph/swap without the
full browser runtime.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Split monolithic render.sx into core (tag registries, shared utils) plus
four adapter .sx files: adapter-html (server HTML strings), adapter-sx
(SX wire format), adapter-dom (browser DOM nodes), and engine (SxEngine
triggers, morphing, swaps). All adapters written in s-expressions with
platform interface declarations for JS bridge functions.
Bootstrap compiler now accepts --adapters flag to emit targeted builds:
-a html → server-only (1108 lines)
-a dom,engine → browser-only (1634 lines)
-a html,sx → server with SX wire (1169 lines)
(default) → all adapters (1800 lines)
Fixes: keyword arg i-counter desync in reduce across all adapters,
render-aware special forms (let/if/when/cond/map) in HTML adapter,
component children double-escaping, ~prefixed macro dispatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bootstrap_js.py reads the reference .sx specification (eval.sx, render.sx)
and transpiles the defined evaluator functions into standalone JavaScript.
The output sx-ref.js is a fully functional SX evaluator bootstrapped from
the s-expression spec, comparable against the hand-written sx.js.
Key features:
- JSEmitter class transpiles SX AST → JS (fn→function, let→IIFE, cond→ternary, etc.)
- Platform interface (types, env ops, primitives) implemented as native JS
- Post-transpilation fixup wraps callLambda to handle both Lambda objects and primitives
- 93/93 tests passing: arithmetic, strings, control flow, closures, HO forms,
components, macros, threading, dict ops, predicates
Fixed during development:
- Bool before int isinstance check (Python bool is subclass of int)
- SX NIL sentinel detection (not Python None)
- Cond style detection (determine Scheme vs Clojure once, not per-pair)
- Predicate null safety (x != null instead of x && to avoid 0-as-falsy in SX)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Meta-circular evaluator: the SX language specifying its own semantics.
A thin bootstrap compiler per target (JS, Python, Rust) reads these
.sx files and emits a native evaluator.
Files:
- eval.sx: Core evaluator — type dispatch, special forms, TCO trampoline,
lambda/component/macro invocation, higher-order forms
- primitives.sx: Declarative specification of ~80 built-in pure functions
- render.sx: Three rendering modes (DOM, HTML string, SX wire format)
- parser.sx: Tokenizer, parser, and serializer specification
Platform-specific concerns (DOM ops, async I/O, HTML emission) are
declared as interfaces that each target implements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
