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Roadmap

Canonical source: docs/roadmap.md

1.0 Priorities

Release Pipeline & Distribution

  • Installer hardening (Linux, macOS, Windows/WSL)
  • Binary distribution and versioning
  • Package registry CLI integration

Compiler Stability & Diagnostics

  • Fix LLVM lowering for control flow (loop/if/break)
  • Improve error messages with source spans and fix-it hints
  • Reduce fixup pass count to zero

Sailfin-Native Runtime

  • Migrate C runtime to Sailfin
  • Implement native ABI (strings, arrays, slices)
  • Native exception handling (replace setjmp/longjmp)
  • Concurrency runtime (channels, spawn, parallel)

Tooling & Developer Workflow

  • VS Code extension improvements
  • Language server protocol (LSP)
  • Debugger integration

Documentation

  • Public website at sailfin.dev
  • Complete language specification
  • Tutorial series
  • Standard library documentation

Post-1.0

  • Async runtime
  • Runtime diagnostics and profiling
  • Full package registry CLI
  • Native test framework improvements
  • WebAssembly target
  • GPU tensor operations
  • Model training support

Exploration Backlog

  • Unsafe FFI formalization
  • Notebook / REPL
  • Cross-compilation targets

See docs/roadmap.md for the complete roadmap with sequencing details.