NOTE: these are internals as I (smj-edison) understand them, not necessarily how things work in practice.

Lots of setup:

• Kill other tcl scripts
• Select entry script
• Import essential libs:
  • C compiler (lib/c.tcl) and utils (lib/c-utils.tcl)
  • Trie data structure (lib/trie.tcl)
  • Evaluator (lib/evaluator.tcl)
  • Environment handling
  • Language extensions (lib/language.tcl)
  • Set up core words:
  • Assert
  • Retract
  • Say
  • Claim
  • Wish
  • When
  • Every
  • Start
  • On
  • After
  • Hold
  • Step
  • Implement shared heap
  • Implement mailboxes

Kick everything off:

• Init zygote
• Define program loading function:
  • Put all programs in file system into dictionary
  • Share programs with all threads
  • Claim programs into existence
• Start web server
• Run entry script

From what I understand, all spaces (tag space, camera space, projector space) are in meters.

Core words are inserted into a queue. When statements serialize their environment (meaning there's no exfiltration of information).

Running Step runs through the queue(?).

Say is a step above Wish/Claim(?). Say ::thisNode wishes the sky is blue vs Wish the sky is blue

TODO: definitely more to talk about here

— Mason Jones 2025/02/07 18:33