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Moved legacy code into archive, ready for a new rapid(?) prototype.

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*Antecedents for this essay:
1. [Reference counting, and the garbage collection of equal sized objects](https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2013-08-25-reference-counting-and-the-garbage-collection-of-equal-sized-objects/);
2. [Vector space, Pages, Mark-but-don't-sweep, and the world's slowest ever rapid prototype](https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-03-13-The-worlds-slowest-ever-rapid-prototype/).
2. [Vector space, Pages, Mark-but-don't-sweep, and the world's slowest ever rapid prototype](https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-03-13-The-worlds-slowest-ever-rapid-prototype/).*
The post-scarcity software environment needs to store data in objects. Much of the data will be in objects which will fit in the memory footpring ot a cons cell, but some won't, and those that won't will be in a variety of sizes.

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# State of Play
## 20260323
I started an investigastion of the [Zig language](https://ziglang.org/) and
come away frustrated. It's definitely an interesting language, and *I think*
one capable of doing what I want. But in trying to learn, I checked out
someone else's [Lisp interpreter in Zig](https://github.com/cryptocode/bio).
The last commit to this project is six months ago, so fairly current; project
documentation is polished, implying the project is well advanced and by someone
competent.
It won't build.
It won't build because there are breaking changes to the build system in the
current version of Zig, and, according to helpful people on the Zig language
Discord, breaking changes in Zig versions are quite frequent.
Post-scarcity is a project which procedes slowly, and is very large indeed. I
will certainly not complete it before I die.
I don't feel unstable tools are a good choice.
I have, however, done more thinking about [Paged space objects], and think I
now have a buildable specification.
## 20260319
Right, the `member?` bug [is fixed](https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-scarcity/issues/11).