Self-Hosting: Building the Ashes Compiler in Ashes
| Capability | Complete |
|---|---|
Unsigned integer support (u8, u16, u32, u64) | Yes |
Byte type (u8) and byte literals | Yes |
Bitwise operators (&, |, ^, <<, >>, ~) | Yes |
Numeric text conversions (parseInt, parseFloat, fromInt, fromFloat, toHex) | Yes |
FFI surface (external functions/types, pointer signatures, symbol@library imports) | Yes |
Immutable Bytes type with indexed access and append helpers | Yes |
Little-endian byte encode/decode helpers (u16/u32/u64) | Yes |
Binary file output (Ashes.IO.File.writeBytes) | Yes |
String helper module (substring, length, indexOf, startsWith, contains, split, trim, char predicates) | Yes |
Persistent immutable map (Ashes.Collection.Map) | Yes |
Persistent immutable array (Ashes.Collection.Array) | Yes |
| Records and record-update syntax | Yes |
| User-written type annotations | Yes |
| Project/module compilation support across multiple files | Yes |
| Catchable error propagation for compile pipeline flows | Yes |
| Memory-management hardening (grow-on-demand arena + scope reclamation) | Yes |
| Large-ADT exhaustiveness/performance hardening | Yes |
JSON parsing/serialization support for ashes.json and JSON-RPC (CLI/LSP/DAP) | Yes |
| Stdio JSON-RPC framing utilities (Content-Length read/write over byte streams) for LSP/DAP | Yes |
| Interactive subprocess control with piped stdin/stdout/stderr, async reads, and request timeouts (DAP debugger backends) | Yes |
| Regex utilities/module for protocol and tooling text parsing (import/project/LSP/DAP parsing paths) | Yes |