Radix 0.27.0

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Release notes#

Short release spanning four days with significant ecosystem expansion: three new microcompiler implementations (Rust, Go, Python), Go language support throughout the pipeline, a new postfix construction syntax, and a unified stdin/stdout build model.

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Major tracks#

Nanus microcompiler ecosystem (Rust, Go, Python)#

Three new implementations of the Faber microcompiler, all sharing a common subsidia core library pattern:

• nanus-rs: Rust implementation with lexer, parser, semantic analysis, Faber emitter, and TypeScript emitter. Uses a shared subsidia-rs library crate (812d1ef35, 18c6f7bfc, ee0b5dd3b)
• Ownership annotations (from/ref/mut) preserved on parameters (43a982d78)
• Semantic lookup for match pattern enum names (68c7e0400)
• 4-space indentation, mut keyword for mutable borrow preposition (2bcb409b3, 4b6447563)
• Round-trip Faber emit fidelity fixes (fbd93e22d)

• nanus-go: Go implementation with TypeScript, Faber, and Faber Glyph (FG) emitters. Imports subsidia/go for shared AST and parser (667905f23, 01ecb23be)
• Struct/operator code generation, generic constructors, const iota enums (7b958e3af)
• Go keyword sanitization for package names (ddc2bdaaa)
• -f flag for output format selection (c5675890f)

• nanus-py: Self-contained Python implementation with lexer, Pratt parser, two-pass semantic analysis, and Faber/Python emitters (9524fca19, 47c119c6a)

• nanus-ts: Low-effort parser improvements, renamed from nanus to nanus-ts (9bab3e259, 5f52cb5ce)

• verify-nanus gains summary mode, directory/glob support (4c5f26bb8)

• All nanus compilers unified to stdin/stdout I/O (c67da5e22, 06f270038) with unified error handling (20891caa0)

Go language support ecosystem#

• Go workspace: go.work for monorepo module resolution, replaces fragile replace directives (d6040d4f5)
• `subsidia/go` shared library: extracted AST, parser, and error handling shared between nanus-go and glyph-go (01ecb23be)
• `glyph-go` tool: bidirectional Faber ↔ Faber Glyph conversion CLI (01ecb23be, 349cd92c3)
• Go HAL implementations: consolum (stdin/stdout/stderr I/O) and solum (filesystem operations) at subsidia/go/norma/hal/ (1ccaa5eae)
• Semantic analysis pass for Go code generation (5622b2d10)
• Go build scripts added for rivus and glyph-go (f263a88de, 65f9dff15)
• Organize and simplify project structure for glyph-go, nanus-go (349cd92c3)

Postfix novum construction syntax#

• {...} novum Type emits new Type({...}) across all compilers (faber, rivus, nanus-ts, nanus-go, nanus-rs) (f621246f4)
• {...} qua Type is now exclusively a type assertion ({...} as Type)
• ~228 } qua GenusName usages in rivus source migrated to } novum GenusName
• Issue documentation added (018ad2a8b)

Rivus refactoring for Go compatibility#

• Removed tempta/catch (try/catch) blocks — parser collects errors instead of throwing (81cb1c7e3)
• Disabled multi-file module resolution — rivus is now stdin-only (81cb1c7e3)
• Eliminated async entry point (incipiet → main), standardized on mori (panic) for error handling (2c79eda26)
• Ownership prepositions (ref/mut/from) added to all ~437 function parameters across 102 files (fc8e5a36a)

Golden test corpus#

• corpus/ directory renamed to golden/ (003ab6222)
• Golden corpus relocated to fons/corpus/ as canonical location (a54c818a1)
• Golden test scripts added to main build pipeline (620a372af)
• TypeScript golden corpus files (cc8791be3, 2cacce809)
• Complete nanus compilation support verified against rivus (cdcbddc67)

Faber Glyph format#

• Faber Glyph specification added: Unicode-based alternative representation using Braille, Block Elements, and Math Operator ranges (9d3f6d454)
• README replaces GLYPH.md (e743ff1e2, cc6e8059f)
• TBDs resolved, glyph mappings reorganized (be441d70f)
• Round-trip encoding/decoding fixes (9b9ac7194)
• Mappings synced with updated README spec (ca9f83bf6)

Other changes#

• --stdin-filename flag added to all compilers (f6772dbed)
• CLI entry points renamed to match module names (fons/faber/cli.ts → faber.ts, nanus-ts/cli.ts → nanus.ts) (fa9f42710)
• Parser enforces if before ref/mut/from parameter ordering across faber, rivus, nanus-ts, and subsidia-go (9400ed465)
• subsidia-rs gains low-effort parser improvements (c765b7ba2)
• subsidia/go parser improvements (dd58181bc)
• fix(subsidia): reject invalid TypeScript-style type syntax (8da7e78a3)
• fix(nanus): correct field visibility and add === operator (231711225)
• fix(nanus): emit naked body for sync incipit, async IIFE for incipiet (2c73bcffa)
• fix(faber): disable comment emission, fix golden import path (ee64d391d)
• fix(build-norma): preserve ref modifiers in generated function params (3fcbaf2e9)
• feat(rivus): display auxilium help text in error messages (bb2400466)
• Docs: EBNF.md synced with current implementation (9e1a0be76, d33898e0d)
• Docs: shell script documentation and error handling improved (2e88492dd)
• Scripts organized with better comments and CI workflow documentation (3a5617ff0, f3f528517)
• Build pipeline restructured into 3 stages: nanus → norma+faber → rivus (20a3b7c0e)

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