Cx Dev Log — 2026-07-18: A Moment of Pause Before the Next Push
The Cx codebase has taken a breather. It's been quiet for five days, a rarity in the fast-paced world of solo-developed languages. Main is stable at commit 3430e4e, marked by the last 0.3.1 release tag from July 9. Submain's clocked at 3b7b7f8 with the freshly finalized gene/phen design as of July 14. Even the automated matrix stands firm: 321 tests passing, zero failing. But quiet isn't inactivity—it's anticipation.
Where the Project Sits
The significant chunk of work that wrapped on July 14 was hefty: the gene/phen design's v1.1 spec. It doesn't just wrap dispatch strategies; we're talking about cleaner Ord mappings, robust Self resolutions, and handling phen lookups with cross-module coherence. Those are down in a 13-commit series on submain, the product of a thorough hammering out of all six outstanding design questions. But it wasn't just theoretical.
These commits include necessary parser and semantic adjustments, say, coming out of our recent audit. Scoping issues are in check, width-range enforcement leveled up, and we've put any unnecessary comparison errors on Bool/Enum to bed. There's a crucial runtime patch too—no more enum ==/!= crashes blowing up the interpreter. We've also streamlined CI through direct run_matrix.sh runs.
