`: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.
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Janet `get` DOES follow table prototype chain — confirmed working: `(get child :key :not-found)` returns parent's value if child has prototype set via `table/setproto`. Earlier confusion about `get` not following prototypes was incorrect. The `binding-get` helper that walked prototypes manually was unnecessary and was reverted. Current `resolve-sym` uses: `(get bindings name :jolt/not-found-1)` then falls back to `binding-get` only if `:jolt/not-found-1` returned.
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Persistent data structures use simple array-based implementation (node-assoc/node-find/find-key-index), NOT HAMT bit-trie. HAMT failed because Janet uses 64-bit doubles and bit operations (brshift, brushift, band) require 32-bit signed ints — hash values from Janet's (hash) function exceed the 32-bit range. Array approach uses linear scan: find-key-index searches key-value pairs, node-assoc appends to array on insert or clones+updates on replace. O(n) lookup, acceptable for small maps.