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Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   1# Working in this repo
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   3## The toolchain, and where builds happen
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   4
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   5There is no nix in the build any more. `tools/toolchain.sh` fetches Flutter
6(which carries Dart), a JDK, the Clojure CLI and Nim as sha256-pinned tarballs
7into `.toolchain/`, and every `just` recipe runs inside the environment that
8script prints. `just tools android` adds Google's command-line tools, which is
9what `just build apk` needs before Gradle can have sdkmanager finish the SDK
10off. The host still brings a C compiler, OpenSSL, git, curl, unzip and
11python3 — and GTK with the usual CMake/Ninja/pkg-config for the Linux targets.
13**Prefer Modal for a long build.** A cold Flutter toolchain plus a full
14compile is a lot of laptop, and the containers in `.modal/` do it on a real
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   16
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   18just modal web    # the web bundle, on Modal
19just modal dev    # the incremental Flutter loop
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   20
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   22The containers in `.modal/` are not a third source tree: they are CI config
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   23that happens to live here, the way `.github/` would be. They run the very same
24`tools/toolchain.sh`, which is why a plain Debian image is enough.
Build the window somewhere with room for it   25
26`modal app logs` is no substitute for watching that command: it resolves
27deployed apps by name, not the ephemeral one a `modal run` creates, and carries
28nothing until the Sandbox starts — the image build streams to the client and
29nowhere else.
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   31The containers run as Modal **Sandboxes on a real VM** rather than under
32gVisor: a real kernel, a working pty, and memory that is exactly what
33`[resources] memory` asks for.
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   34
Follow the xorg renames, and stop wrapping nix in distrobox   35One thing this container is *not* representative of: `/etc/localtime` is a
36regular file here rather than a symlink, so anything that reads the zone out
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   37of its path sees nothing. That is a real deployment shape, not an artefact —
38frq.clock handles it.
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's   39
Build the window somewhere with room for it   40## Never pipe a long task through `tail`
42`tail` and `head` do not emit anything until their input ends, so a build, a
43test run or a deploy piped through one shows nothing at all until it is over —
44and if it is killed or times out first, its output is lost with it. That is the
45opposite of what you want from the commands that take longest.
47Let them write to the terminal, or `tee` them if you want a copy to grep
48afterwards:
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   51modal run .modal/web/container.py 2>&1 | tee /tmp/frq-build.log
Build the window somewhere with room for it   52
54Trim afterwards, on the file, where the whole run is still there to re-read.
55The same goes for `grep` and `awk` in a live pipeline: they buffer when their
56output is not a terminal, so pass `--line-buffered` / `fflush()` or watch the
57file instead.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   59## The Nim core
61`nim/` is the portable logic, moving out of `common/` one module at a time as
62a native library the Dart side calls through FFI. Read `nim/README.md` before
63touching it — in particular the status section, which says what is actually
64wired up (the Nim half and its ABI) and what is not (the Dart binding).
66Two rules the ABI has, both of which cost a segfault to rediscover:
68* Every string the core returns is the **caller's** to free, with `frq_free`.
69  Nim's allocator is not Dart's.
70* `frq_init` runs once before anything else.
The binding is Dart, and it works   72`dart/frq_core` is the other half of that seam, and is **plain Dart**. New
73code on the Dart side of the boundary is written in Dart rather than
74ClojureDart — the core exists to have less Clojure in the tree, and adding
75more of it to call the thing replacing it is the wrong direction. ClojureDart
76shrinks from both ends.
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   78`just test nim` and `just test dart` need no Flutter, which is most of the
The binding is Dart, and it works   79point: the whole boundary is checkable in about a second.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   80
81A module is not deleted from `common/` when its Nim version lands: the web
82target cannot load a native library, so the ClojureDart original is the web's
83implementation until there is a wasm build. Deleting one would take the web
84build with it.
86## The two source trees
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's   87
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   89common/  .cljc  portable — every target compiles it
90flutter/ .cljd  the Flutter half, and the host implementations
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's   91
93The extension is the boundary, not a convention: ClojureDart reads `.cljd` and
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   94`.cljc` and never `.clj`. The rule for anything under `common/` is that it may
95not require a `dart:` library — if it needs the host, it asks `frq.io`, and the
96implementation that installed itself answers. `frq.io.dart` is installed by
97`flutter/src/frq/main.cljd`, which has to await the storage directory first;
98`frq.io.web` by `main_web.cljd`.
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's   99
100Adding a host call means adding it to the seam in `common/frq/io.cljc` and to
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   101every implementation. Name it for the result rather than the mechanism — the
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's   102seam has `write-private-file!` and not a chmod, because Dart has no chmod.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   104There used to be a third tree, `src/`, and a second runtime under it: jolt,
105glimmer, and a libcosmic desktop window painting the same screens. It is gone,
106along with `just cosmic`, `just tui`, the AV/MoQ media plane and the native
107objects they loaded. Flutter is the only frontend now, and `common/` is
108compiled by one compiler rather than two — which is why the `#?(:jolt ...)`
109reader conditionals that used to be scattered through it are not there any
110more. `tools/check-common.py` still guards the seam, and CI still runs it on
111every push.
113`flutter/` builds three things, from one `clojure -M:cljd compile`:
Paint the desktop with Flutter too, beside libcosmic   114
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   115`just build apk`. Impure on purpose: Gradle resolves its own dependencies over
116the network and has sdkmanager install a platform and build-tools into
117`ANDROID_HOME` as it goes, which is why that SDK lives in `.toolchain/` and is
118ours to write to.
Paint the desktop with Flutter too, beside libcosmic   119
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   120`just build desktop`, Flutter's Linux target — CMake, Ninja, pkg-config and
121GTK from the host where the APK wants a JDK and an SDK. Impure for the network
122half of the same reasons.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   123
Six verbs, and the last of the nix   124`just build web`, which needs least of all: a Dart, a JVM and a browser, and
125the browser is not ours. That is what lets `.modal/web/` run the same
126`tools/build-web.sh` on a plain Debian image.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure   127
128The consequence for `common/` is that "the phone" is not a synonym for "the
129ClojureDart side": three targets compile it. An implementation that branches on
130the platform has to ask (`Platform.isAndroid`) rather than assume; see
Paint the desktop with Flutter too, beside libcosmic   131`frq.io.dart/write-private-file!`, where assuming cost a token its file mode.
132See flutter/README.md.

Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file bffe879 nandi 18d ago	1	# Working in this repo
	2
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	3	## The toolchain, and where builds happen
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file bffe879 nandi 18d ago	4
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	5	There is no nix in the build any more. `tools/toolchain.sh` fetches Flutter
	6	(which carries Dart), a JDK, the Clojure CLI and Nim as sha256-pinned tarballs
	7	into `.toolchain/`, and every `just` recipe runs inside the environment that
	8	script prints. `just tools android` adds Google's command-line tools, which is
	9	what `just build apk` needs before Gradle can have sdkmanager finish the SDK
	10	off. The host still brings a C compiler, OpenSSL, git, curl, unzip and
	11	python3 — and GTK with the usual CMake/Ninja/pkg-config for the Linux targets.
	12
	13	Prefer Modal for a long build. A cold Flutter toolchain plus a full
	14	compile is a lot of laptop, and the containers in `.modal/` do it on a real
	15	machine:
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file bffe879 nandi 18d ago	16
	17	```bash
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	18	just modal web # the web bundle, on Modal
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	19	just modal dev # the incremental Flutter loop
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file bffe879 nandi 18d ago	20	```
	21
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	22	The containers in `.modal/` are not a third source tree: they are CI config
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	23	that happens to live here, the way `.github/` would be. They run the very same
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	24	`tools/toolchain.sh`, which is why a plain Debian image is enough.
Build the window somewhere with room for it 1451151 nandi 5d ago	25
	26	`modal app logs` is no substitute for watching that command: it resolves
	27	deployed apps by name, not the ephemeral one a `modal run` creates, and carries
	28	nothing until the Sandbox starts — the image build streams to the client and
	29	nowhere else.
	30
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	31	The containers run as Modal Sandboxes on a real VM rather than under
	32	gVisor: a real kernel, a working pty, and memory that is exactly what
	33	`[resources] memory` asks for.
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file bffe879 nandi 18d ago	34
Follow the xorg renames, and stop wrapping nix in distrobox a400a00 nandi 16d ago	35	One thing this container is not representative of: `/etc/localtime` is a
	36	regular file here rather than a symlink, so anything that reads the zone out
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file bffe879 nandi 18d ago	37	of its path sees nothing. That is a real deployment shape, not an artefact —
	38	frq.clock handles it.
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's 7070931 nandi 7d ago	39
Build the window somewhere with room for it 1451151 nandi 5d ago	40	## Never pipe a long task through `tail`
	41
	42	`tail` and `head` do not emit anything until their input ends, so a build, a
	43	test run or a deploy piped through one shows nothing at all until it is over —
	44	and if it is killed or times out first, its output is lost with it. That is the
	45	opposite of what you want from the commands that take longest.
	46
	47	Let them write to the terminal, or `tee` them if you want a copy to grep
	48	afterwards:
	49
	50	```bash
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	51	modal run .modal/web/container.py 2>&1 \| tee /tmp/frq-build.log
Build the window somewhere with room for it 1451151 nandi 5d ago	52	```
	53
	54	Trim afterwards, on the file, where the whole run is still there to re-read.
	55	The same goes for `grep` and `awk` in a live pipeline: they buffer when their
	56	output is not a terminal, so pass `--line-buffered` / `fflush()` or watch the
	57	file instead.
	58
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	59	## The Nim core
	60
	61	`nim/` is the portable logic, moving out of `common/` one module at a time as
	62	a native library the Dart side calls through FFI. Read `nim/README.md` before
	63	touching it — in particular the status section, which says what is actually
	64	wired up (the Nim half and its ABI) and what is not (the Dart binding).
	65
	66	Two rules the ABI has, both of which cost a segfault to rediscover:
	67
	68	* Every string the core returns is the caller's to free, with `frq_free`.
	69	Nim's allocator is not Dart's.
	70	* `frq_init` runs once before anything else.
	71
The binding is Dart, and it works f7aea3b nandi 20h ago	72	`dart/frq_core` is the other half of that seam, and is plain Dart. New
	73	code on the Dart side of the boundary is written in Dart rather than
	74	ClojureDart — the core exists to have less Clojure in the tree, and adding
	75	more of it to call the thing replacing it is the wrong direction. ClojureDart
	76	shrinks from both ends.
	77
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	78	`just test nim` and `just test dart` need no Flutter, which is most of the
The binding is Dart, and it works f7aea3b nandi 20h ago	79	point: the whole boundary is checkable in about a second.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	80
	81	A module is not deleted from `common/` when its Nim version lands: the web
	82	target cannot load a native library, so the ClojureDart original is the web's
	83	implementation until there is a wasm build. Deleting one would take the web
	84	build with it.
	85
	86	## The two source trees
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's 7070931 nandi 7d ago	87
	88	```
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	89	common/ .cljc portable — every target compiles it
	90	flutter/ .cljd the Flutter half, and the host implementations
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's 7070931 nandi 7d ago	91	```
	92
	93	The extension is the boundary, not a convention: ClojureDart reads `.cljd` and
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	94	`.cljc` and never `.clj`. The rule for anything under `common/` is that it may
	95	not require a `dart:` library — if it needs the host, it asks `frq.io`, and the
	96	implementation that installed itself answers. `frq.io.dart` is installed by
	97	`flutter/src/frq/main.cljd`, which has to await the storage directory first;
	98	`frq.io.web` by `main_web.cljd`.
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's 7070931 nandi 7d ago	99
	100	Adding a host call means adding it to the seam in `common/frq/io.cljc` and to
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	101	every implementation. Name it for the result rather than the mechanism — the
Split the tree three ways, and let the phone be Flutter's 7070931 nandi 7d ago	102	seam has `write-private-file!` and not a chmod, because Dart has no chmod.
	103
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	104	There used to be a third tree, `src/`, and a second runtime under it: jolt,
	105	glimmer, and a libcosmic desktop window painting the same screens. It is gone,
	106	along with `just cosmic`, `just tui`, the AV/MoQ media plane and the native
	107	objects they loaded. Flutter is the only frontend now, and `common/` is
	108	compiled by one compiler rather than two — which is why the `#?(:jolt ...)`
	109	reader conditionals that used to be scattered through it are not there any
	110	more. `tools/check-common.py` still guards the seam, and CI still runs it on
	111	every push.
	112
	113	`flutter/` builds three things, from one `clojure -M:cljd compile`:
Paint the desktop with Flutter too, beside libcosmic fc5f63c nandi 7d ago	114
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	115	`just build apk`. Impure on purpose: Gradle resolves its own dependencies over
	116	the network and has sdkmanager install a platform and build-tools into
	117	`ANDROID_HOME` as it goes, which is why that SDK lives in `.toolchain/` and is
	118	ours to write to.
Paint the desktop with Flutter too, beside libcosmic fc5f63c nandi 7d ago	119
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	120	`just build desktop`, Flutter's Linux target — CMake, Ninja, pkg-config and
	121	GTK from the host where the APK wants a JDK and an SDK. Impure for the network
	122	half of the same reasons.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	123
Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 17h ago	124	`just build web`, which needs least of all: a Dart, a JVM and a browser, and
	125	the browser is not ours. That is what lets `.modal/web/` run the same
	126	`tools/build-web.sh` on a plain Debian image.
One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 21h ago	127
	128	The consequence for `common/` is that "the phone" is not a synonym for "the
	129	ClojureDart side": three targets compile it. An implementation that branches on
	130	the platform has to ask (`Platform.isAndroid`) rather than assume; see
Paint the desktop with Flutter too, beside libcosmic fc5f63c nandi 7d ago	131	`frq.io.dart/write-private-file!`, where assuming cost a token its file mode.
	132	See flutter/README.md.