support type hints; make metadata coherent
The reader expanded ^X form to (with-meta form X), which evaluated the tag (so
^String errored 'Unable to resolve symbol: String') and, as a param, was no
longer a bare symbol (so the arg bound to nil). Now a keyword/symbol/string hint
on a symbol attaches to the symbol's :meta and the symbol stays bare, so type
hints are transparent in params, lets, and bodies. Map metadata still uses a
runtime with-meta form.
meta now returns a symbol's :meta, and def applies the name's metadata
(^:dynamic, ^:private, ^Type tag, ^{:doc}) to the var, so (meta (var x)) is
consistent. Specs in metadata-spec; grammar note in the ebnf.
README notes regex \p{...} as unsupported (separate from this).
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- **Concurrency / STM.** No refs, `dosync`, agents, or `send`; `locking` evaluates its body without real locking. Atoms, volatiles, promises, and delays are supported.
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- **Futures.** `future` runs its body on a *real* OS thread (Janet's `ev/thread`), so it can use a second core for CPU-bound work — unlike the cooperatively-scheduled `go` blocks. `deref`/`@` parks until the result is ready (with the optional `(deref f timeout-ms timeout-val)` arity); `future?`, `future-done?`, `realized?`, `future-cancel`, and `future-cancelled?` are supported. Two important divergences from the JVM: (1) **snapshot semantics** — Janet threads have separate heaps, so the body and the state it closes over are *copied* to the worker thread and only the return value is copied back; mutating a captured atom does not propagate to the parent (communicate via the return value). (2) **no thread interruption** — Janet OS threads can't be cancelled mid-run, so `future-cancel` marks the *future* cancelled (deref then throws and the predicates flip) but the underlying computation still runs to completion in the background. As on the JVM, a live future thread keeps the process alive until it finishes (the JVM's non-daemon future pool behaves the same).
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- **core.async.** `clojure.core.async` runs on Janet fibers and channels (`chan`, `go`, `go-loop`, `<!`/`>!`/`<!!`/`>!!`, `close!`, `alts!`, `timeout`, `put!`/`take!`, `buffer`/`dropping-buffer`/`sliding-buffer`, and channel transducers via `(chan n xform)`). Because Janet fibers are stackful coroutines, a `go` block is just its body run in a fiber — no CPS/state-machine rewrite — so `<!`/`>!` work *anywhere*, including inside `try`, nested `fn`s, and loops (positions Clojure's `go` macro forbids). Go blocks are cooperatively scheduled on one OS thread, so parking (`<!`) and blocking (`<!!`) coincide; `thread` runs cooperatively too. Dynamic-var bindings are conveyed into `go` blocks (each go block sees the bindings in effect when it was spawned).
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- **Regex.** Compiled to Janet's PEG engine (Janet has no regex). Supported: capturing groups (`[whole g1 …]`), greedy and lazy quantifiers with backtracking, `(?:…)`, lookahead `(?=…)`/`(?!…)`, alternation, anchors `^ $ \b \B`, character classes, and the `(?i)` flag. Not supported: lookbehind, backreferences (`\1`), and named groups (`(?<name>…)`).
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- **Regex.** Compiled to Janet's PEG engine (Janet has no regex). Supported: capturing groups (`[whole g1 …]`), greedy and lazy quantifiers with backtracking, `(?:…)`, lookahead `(?=…)`/`(?!…)`, alternation, anchors `^ $ \b \B`, character classes, and the `(?i)` flag. Not supported: lookbehind, backreferences (`\1`), named groups (`(?<name>…)`), and Unicode property classes (`\p{Lu}`).
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- **Arrays.** Java-style arrays map onto Janet's native types: `byte-array` is a Janet buffer (contiguous, C-backed); `object-array`/`int-array`/`double-array`/etc. are Janet arrays. `aget`/`aset`/`alength`/`aclone` work over both.
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- **Transients.** `transient`/`conj!`/`assoc!`/`dissoc!`/`disj!`/`pop!`/`persistent!` are real mutable scratch collections backed by Janet's native arrays and tables (vectors → arrays, maps/sets → tables), so building a collection with them avoids the per-step copying of the persistent path (notably for maps/sets). `persistent!` freezes back to a persistent value.
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- **Not implemented.** JVM reflection, `proxy`, and the `clojure.repl`/`clojure.template` namespaces.
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