Blog

News, announcements, and updates from the Clef language project.

DesignTypes

A Path Less Traveled

How Bidirectional Computation Can Lead to Higher Integrity Computation with a Quieter API

AudioEmbedded

Pitch, touch and demand

An interactive pitch-smoothing experiment for HelloDISCO, and what a musical control reveals about demand-driven UI.

JavaScriptConcurrency

Carrying Proofs into JavaScript

What survives when a verified computation suspends, crosses an isolate boundary, or returns through a durable workflow?

NumericsConcurrency

Pondering Fearless Parallelism

What if a compiler could explain and preserve the integrity of parallel work?

ArchitectureDesign

Flight-Qualified Bytecode

NASA's flight-compliant WASM, the eBPF shape we see in it, and our own careful line drawn through both

ArchitectureDesign

The Web on Native Terms

Two pathways to the web from a compiler that started at the reset vector

ArchitectureDesign

An Emergent File System Model

Taking inspiration for low-level soundness at the object level

machine-learninggeometric-algebra

Beyond the Bitter Lesson

Convergence and construction form a continuum, not a binary choice

CryptographyPost-Quantum

Fixing on Falcon

Fixed-Point Signatures and the Shape of Provable Implementation

DesignControl Systems

Another Moog Enters the Conversation

While Bob Moog informs Houston's foundation, we continue to take lessons from another engineer in the Moog family

ConcurrencyDesign

The Cold Half of Concurrency

Incremental's ML lineage, from adaptive functional programming to industrial stabilizers, and its place in actor-owned reactive graphs

ConcurrencyArchitecture

Surfacing The Scheduler

An Understudy to Prospero until now, Ariel finally steps into the limelight