Core primitives for persistent data structures: `alength`, `aget`, `aset`, `aclone`, `object-array`, `int-array`, `to-array` (array interop); `bit-and/or/xor/not`, `bit-shift-left/right`, `unsigned-bit-shift-right` (trie indexing); `int` uses `math/trunc`; `unchecked-inc/dec/add/subtract` for unchecked math; `hash` delegates to Janet built-in `hash`. All registered in `core-bindings`.
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`and`/`or` macros: `(and x y)` → `(let* [and__x x] (if and__x (and y) and__x))`. `(or x y)` → `(let* [or__x x] (if or__x or__x (or y)))`. Registered as macros in core-macro-names. `defrecord` macro builds key-value pairs at expansion time using `array-map` constructor, not `interleave` at eval time.
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SCI added as git submodule at `vendor/sci` (https://github.com/borkdude/sci.git). Clone with `git submodule update --init`. 317/317 forms load from 9 core files. Internal namespaces (interop, parser, opts) partially loaded — parser.cljc needs `utils/new-var` (calls `sci.lang.Var.` constructor) and `edamame/normalize-opts` stubs.
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`:mutable?` compile flag in `api.janet` `init`: persistent Clojure data structures loaded by default. Pass `{:mutable? true}` to use Janet native mutable tuples/tables instead. `load-persistent-structures` function in api.janet loads `src/jolt/clojure/lang/persistent_vector.clj` (17 forms) and swaps `vec`/`vector`/`vector?` bindings in `clojure.core`. PersistentHashMap WIP in `src/jolt/clojure/lang/persistent_hash_map.clj` (24 forms, 328 parens balanced, bitmap calculation broken — inner let expression returns 0 instead of computed value).
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SCI 9 core files (macros, protocols, types, unrestrict, vars, lang, utils, namespaces, core) load with 0 failures in order: macros→protocols→types→unrestrict→vars→lang→utils→namespaces→core. 46 namespaces populated. Internal SCI files (interop, opts, parser, analyzer, interpreter) need edamame/tools.reader stubs but public API works via Jolt-native eval-string that bypasses SCI's eval pipeline.