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Yogthos 829c251bca Host shims and protocol fixes shaken out by aws-api 
Running cognitect aws-api's pure test namespaces (signing/shapes/protocols/
util/retry/endpoints) surfaced general gaps:

- extend-protocol/extend-type accept a computed class type, e.g.
  (Class/forName "[B") for the byte-array class — the byte-array idiom data.json
  and aws-api use. The macro grouping handled only symbol/nil heads (it crashed on
  a list type); type->name resolves a Class value via .getName; a byte-array
  dispatches on the "[B" host tag.
- java.nio.ByteBuffer over a jolt byte-array (wrap/allocate/get/put/array/
  remaining/position/limit/duplicate/flip), plus extend-protocol to it.
- java.util.Arrays (equals/copyOf/copyOfRange/fill) and java.util.Random
  (nextBytes/nextInt/…).
- java.net.URI/create and clojure.lang.RT/baseLoader statics.
- clojure.core.async/promise-chan (deliver-once, peek-don't-pop).
- a failed java.time parse throws DateTimeParseException (typed), so
  (catch DateTimeParseException …) matches it instead of leaking an untyped
  condition.

The XML side lives in the jolt-lang/xml library (libxml2 over jolt.ffi); ByteBuffer
stays in core as a generic java.nio primitive.

Gate: make test green (corpus +6 JVM-certified rows, 0 NEW divergence; unit
553/553; SCI 211).
2026-06-25 16:56:48 -04:00
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image.ss Host shims and protocol fixes shaken out by aws-api 2026-06-25 16:56:48 -04:00
prelude.ss Host shims and protocol fixes shaken out by aws-api 2026-06-25 16:56:48 -04:00
README.md Docs: Chez-only, drop the Janet-era references and obsolete migration notes 2026-06-22 09:05:35 -04:00

README.md

Chez bootstrap seed

These two files are the bootstrap compiler for jolt — the seed that makes the build self-hosting:

  • prelude.ss — the clojure.core prelude (all tiers + clojure.string/walk/ template/edn/set/pprint) as Scheme def-var! forms.
  • image.ss — the compiler image (jolt.ir + jolt.analyzer + jolt.backend-scheme) as Scheme def-var! forms.

Both are generated, not hand-written. They are checked in because a fresh checkout must be able to build jolt-on-Chez using only Chez: host/chez/bootstrap.ss loads this seed, then rebuilds the prelude + image from the .clj/.ss sources via the on-Chez compiler (read → analyze → emit, all on Chez). The seed is a joint byte-fixpoint: rebuilding from an up-to-date seed reproduces it exactly. make selfhost (host/chez/selfcheck.sh) runs host/chez/bootstrap.ss and diffs the rebuilt artifacts against the checked-in seed.

Re-minting

When the seed sources change (the core tiers, the compiler namespaces, the host contract, the reader, emit-image.ss), the seed drifts and make selfhost fails. Re-mint it by running host/chez/bootstrap.ss and writing the freshly rebuilt prelude/image back to host/chez/seed/prelude.ss / host/chez/seed/image.ss, then commit the refreshed files.