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>
The geography page function returned nil instead of the index-content
component, and the index layout was missing the standard doc page wrapper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
spec-introspect.sx: pure SX functions that read, parse, and analyze
spec files. No Python. The spec IS data — a macro transforms it into
explorer UI components.
- spec-explore: reads spec file via IO, parses with sx-parse, extracts
sections/defines/effects/params, produces explorer data dict
- spec-form-name/kind/effects/params/source: individual extractors
- spec-group-sections: groups defines into sections
- spec-compute-stats: aggregate effect/define counts
OCaml kernel fixes:
- nth handles strings (character indexing for parser)
- ident-start?, ident-char?, char-numeric?, parse-number: platform
primitives needed by spec/parser.sx when loaded at runtime
- _find_spec_file: searches spec/, web/, shared/sx/ref/ for spec files
83/84 Playwright tests pass. The 1 failure is client-side re-rendering
of the spec explorer (the client evaluates defpage content which calls
find-spec — unavailable on the client).
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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
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Evaluator: data-first higher-order forms — ho-swap-args auto-detects
(map coll fn) vs (map fn coll), both work. Threading + HO: (-> data
(map fn)) dispatches through CEK HO machinery via quoted-value splice.
17 new tests in test-cek-advanced.sx.
Fix plan pages: add mother-language, isolated-evaluator, rust-wasm-host
to page-functions.sx plan() — were in defpage but missing from URL router.
Aser error handling: pages.py now catches EvalError separately, renders
visible error banner instead of silently sending empty content. All
except blocks include traceback in logs.
Scope primitives: register collect!/collected/clear-collected!/emitted/
emit!/context in shared/sx/primitives.py so hand-written _aser can
resolve them (fixes ~cssx/flush expansion failure).
New test file: shared/sx/tests/test_aser_errors.py — 19 pytest tests
for error propagation through all aser control flow forms.
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
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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.
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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>
Both plans had nav entries and component files but were missing from
the page-functions.sx case statement, causing 404s on their URLs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <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
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- 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>
Without this, /sx/(geography.(spreads)) 404s because spreads isn't
defined as a page function to return the content component.
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
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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>
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>
