Program-lifetime instances were created with rc == SIZE_MAX, which every runtime contract reads as "published": the frozen-object guards throw on stores, postMessage and workerData share the object by pointer instead of cloning it, and the publish walker stops there. So programs that publish could not use ProgramLifetime (SC7007 refused it), and an unpublished instance posted to a worker would have been shared instead of cloned.
They are now created with the midpoint count 2^63 (2^31 on 32-bit targets). Only the class's empty retain and release helpers count references on these types, so nothing ever changes or frees that count; the midpoint keeps even an unpaired generic retain or release away from 0 and SIZE_MAX. Until the program publishes an instance it is an ordinary mutable, thread-local object to every runtime contract: stores succeed, postMessage clones it. Publication marks it SIZE_MAX like any object it reaches (the visited mark, logged and restored when a refusal undoes the publish), after which the frozen guards throw Node's TypeErrors and other threads read it by pointer. No header, extra word, runtime change or new instruction: the count itself is the published mark. The cycle analysis keeps the hierarchies untraced, so the collector never visits an instance, as for every untraced class.
SC7007 no longer refuses program-lifetime classes reachable from a publish() call; it still requires a root class in an executable. Without the marker nothing changes: tsc-ts best-v7 built with and without this change is byte-identical.
Tests: corpus 4634-contract-program-lifetime-publish (Node vs native): program-lifetime hierarchies with parent cycles, maps and sets of them, maps keyed by them and mortal scopes around them, published on the main thread and a worker and read on the other; writes after publication throw on both threads; unpublished instances stay writable; a refused publish leaves visited instances writable; a later publish reaches published and fresh instances; an unpublished instance in workerData is cloned. With the old SIZE_MAX count the program dies at its first constructor store. classes.test.ts covers the count on both pointer widths, the walker and the frozen guard. The contract-program-lifetime-publish diagnostics fixture is removed (the program now compiles). Docs: contracts and limitations pages, @scriptc/types.
`implements Acyclic` resolved to Record<never, never>, and the frontend
indexes implemented types as class protocols by symbol, so every Record
value in the program took checked identity (on tsc-ts: Int32 field
contracts failed with SC7003). The default is now AcyclicObject, an empty
interface only @scriptc/types declares, and type arguments in heritage
clauses are reported (they would make a class implement its own type).
Corpus 4642 stores an Acyclic class with an Int32 field in a Record.
explainCycle picks the shortest cycle through the unit and a mutable
edge (BFS distances forward and backward within the component): on
tsc-ts `Node.parent -> Node` instead of a 20-step path through the
checker.
The may-throw analysis now models handlers. A throwing operation or call
inside a `try` with a `catch`, or inside a try/catch whose `finally`
never completes normally (it returns, breaks or continues, discarding the
pending exception), adds no seed and no call edge. The catch and finally
bodies are analyzed like any other code, so rethrows and a finally that
re-raises stay exact. Worker programs (a termination request unwinds
through catch) and generator bodies (a `.return()` does too) keep the
conservative answer.
Unreachable statements no longer seed: the frontend's SC9002 trap after a
body that returns from both its try and its catch (or ends in a switch
with a default, or an infinite loop) is dead code. On tsc-ts this drops
14 functions from the may-throw set and 44 pending-exception checks.
A NoThrow function may now contain handled calls; the SC7001 hint names
the remedy that applies (catch it, remove the recursion, or the worker
exception).
`class C implements Acyclic`, `interface I extends Acyclic` and
`type T = Acyclic<{ ... }>` promise that no chain of references leads
from such an object back to itself. The check is the cycle analysis that
decides tracing, so a proven type carries no cycle-collector header. When
it does not hold, SC7007 shows the cycle: the path of fields, and why it
can close (a field assigned after construction, with the first such
write; an array, Map or Set; a function, dynamic or promise field; a
subclass sharing the layout). cycle-analysis.ts gains explainCycle over
the same graph with edge labels; computeTraced is unchanged.
Acyclic elsewhere is reported with SC7006. Docs, @scriptc/types,
corpus 4642, diagnostics snapshots and TypeScript baselines included.
`class Node implements ProgramLifetime` (@scriptc/types, import type only, erased for Node) promises that instances of the class and of its subclasses are kept until the program exits. scriptc then creates them immortal: `new` stores rc = SIZE_MAX and allocates no collector header, the class's retain and release entry points are empty (so reference counting on every static type of the hierarchy folds away), and the cycle analysis treats the hierarchy as a leaf, which untraces types that only reached it. Immortal objects are already part of every RC, collector, weak-collection and publication contract (static literals, published graphs).
The promise only changes memory use; SC7007 refuses it where something else could observe it: on a class that is not the root of its hierarchy (including built-in bases), in library builds, and on classes whose instances can be published to other threads. SC7006 reports the marker outside a class's implements clause.
tsc-ts with nine roots marked (Node, NodeList, FlowNode, Symbol, Type, Signature, IndexInfo, SymbolLinks, NodeLinks): single-threaded wall -25.8% Excalidraw, -22.2% TypeORM, -25.9% self-check, -28.5% Sentry; peak RSS -6.5% to -16.5%; identical diagnostics.
- NoThrow diagnostics name compiler-resolved Node errors (class and message)
and explain parameters the frontend compiles as T | undefined because a
caller passes a possibly missing value (for example xs[i]!), naming that
call.
- Synthetic dynamic-class helpers (%dyn.*) carry the location of the code
that first needed them; they are no longer bound to annotations there.
- Int32 hints only parenthesize where needed; the NoThrow hint no longer
suggests try/catch, which does not discharge the contract.
- Diagnostics snapshots and TypeScript preflight/order baselines for the new
fixtures.
- Docs: /docs/contracts and a limitations entry.
Deferred collection diagnostics now stay attached to their declaration until a
copy reaches the final report, so a discarded probe buffer or a successful
nested collection can no longer drop them. Uses of a binding whose type names
a rejected class report that class's diagnostic before the inherited-blocker
cascade.
A for-of loop over an array whose own facts show a hole or a stored
undefined binds T | undefined, and the typed parameters, locals, record
fields and Math arguments it reaches widen to hold it. Loops over arrays
the element-state analysis proves free of holes read each element
directly, without a per-element state test.
Object literals built from a missing-element read keep the property as
undefined in shorthand and long form, through spreads, nested records,
arrays of records, annotated locals and literal arguments to typed
parameters.
* Compose class references across unions and collections
- Compare class, function and native references held in differently represented unions with `===`, `!==` and `Object.is` while preserving subclass identity, and refuse comparisons that a structural union arm leaves undecidable
- Keep subclass values intact through base-typed array and Set insertion spreads, `concat`, and inferred class-predicate `filter`/`find`/`findLast`, and allow checked class refinement of captured optional values with several class arms
- Split the sanitized compiler self-rebuild CI job at the IR boundary, after giving sort helpers distinct IR nodes so serialized and in-memory IR emit the same LLVM
* Keep compact comparisons for plain union arms
- Compare a plain operand with a union that already holds its type through the existing inline union comparison, preserving established parameter representations
- Update the coverage expectation for the accepted class refinement
- Preserve narrowed class and generic values, abstract properties, and standalone caught-class identity.
- Support identity-preserving array concatenation and typed-array collection values, with focused differential and sanitizer coverage.
- Share revision-matched bootstrap seeds across CI jobs while retaining command, rebuild, packaging, and sanitizer checks.
- Preserve live class identity through interface receivers and object methods.
- Extend synchronous text reads and regular expression replacement callbacks.
- Keep unsupported generic dispatch boundaries explicit.
- Support concrete generic inheritance, forward references, and nullable substitutions.
- Bound recursive specialization demands while preserving independent concrete uses.
- Preserve class identity through checked assertions and contextual lowering.
- Support boolean, bigint, and mixed value keys in native Maps and Sets.
- Reuse key hashes and copy collections directly into compact storage.
- Preserve collection identity, ordering, iteration, and ownership behavior.
* perf: skip island type probes in static compilation
* test: retain reached declaration checker panic diagnostics
* test: make child backpressure event ordering deterministic
* perf: index JavaScript binding writes once per scope
* test: record preflight baseline for binding writes fixture
* Expand static compilation for common Effect 4 patterns
* Run every Effect 4 fixture slice in CI
* Preserve existing corpus behavior across Effect 4 lowering
* Preserve Effect platform callbacks and native stream state
* Record new corpus baselines and retain child stdin refusals
* Retire the obsolete stateful regex diagnostic
* Preserve promise reference count layout for cycle collection
* feat: support static buffer constructors and prototype methods
- Preserve typed-array constructor identity and shared storage across JavaScript class APIs.
- Support chained indexed assignments and mutable prototype methods with native receiver dispatch.
- Compile Three.js geometry merging, instancing, and keyframe interpolation without a JavaScript engine.
* fix: preserve native collection and dispatch semantics
- Preserve typed-array identity in collections and JavaScript argument evaluation.
- Keep symbol-backed fields and unreachable methods on their existing static paths.
- Restore compiler bootstrapping and deferred class diagnostics.
* fix: preserve inferred returns in native compilation
- Update recorded return statements in place so native compilation preserves mixed JavaScript return values.
* test: update inferred array coverage expectations
- Recognize heterogeneous writes supported by shared JavaScript array storage.
- Compile Three.js capsule, sphere, and ray collision queries for native and WebAssembly targets.
- Preserve JavaScript constructor results, shared arrays, and nullable class fields.
- Resolve static methods against their exact class receivers.
- Run published three.js vector, matrix, and quaternion operations natively and as Wasm without a JavaScript engine.
- Preserve shared class prototype data and JavaScript overload arguments.
- Support Math function values and distinct npm import and require entries.
* Support primitive and function property descriptors
* Dispatch literal bracket calls to native class methods
* Handle numeric class method keys in bracket calls
* Call function values returned by class accessors
* Expand native object and array semantics
* Keep new corpus fixtures aligned with compiler gates
* Lower Object.isFrozen arguments once
- Share frontend loading, package selection, contracts, and FFI parsing between Node and native clients.
- Preserve collection layouts and optional method returns while lowering long nullish chains without recursive stack growth.
- Rebuild the frontend from TypeScript through native lowering and C emission with matching output.
- Complete frontend lowering with zero rejected statements, dynamic islands, or skipped functions.
- Support contextual construction, presence guards, and union record copies used by the compiler.
- Add native CommonJS resolution and cross-platform file URL handling while preserving Node host behavior.
- Preserve async factory results and mixed table layouts through inference and destructuring.
- Support checked Map and Object.fromEntries construction with native weak collections.
- Keep native weak-key lifetimes and engine-backed collection identities intact.
- Support integer widths and clamped arrays with shared storage and exact runtime brands.
- Preserve typed-array values through untyped fields, iteration, and byte I/O.
- Compile native ArrayBuffer response bodies and checked Number predicates.
Chris Tate