InauguralSystems/EigenScript

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A standalone programming language with native observer semantics, closures, dictionaries, error handling, and a self-interpreter — all in a single zero-dependency C binary

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The maintainers of InauguralSystems/EigenScript usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 8 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars: 3
Forks: 7
Open beginner issues: 8
Indexed issues: 88
Avg merge: 3h 56m
Merged PRs (30d): 102

Dominant language: C
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 26, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 23, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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consumer_acceptance.sh: residuals ledger after the six-round critic loop (#1224) — fit to gate the 16 real consumers; 12 ranked holes for hypothetical shapes
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area:gates found-by:critic kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1229 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026

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gfx: no image blit, no additive blend, no polygon/gradient, no font API — the 15-primitive surface caps every consumer at a 1982 look (Tidepool forcing-function)
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area:gfx enhancement found-by:consumer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1216 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

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PERFORMANCE.md states a 46% observer overhead that measures 0%, and the gate that should have caught it is one-sided by construction
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area:docs area:gates found-by:critic kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1206 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026

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String-scaling selftest accepts a broken production sort that passes 8 quadratic rounds of 15
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area:gates found-by:critic kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1196 · Opened Sep 19, 2026

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String-scaling gate misses quadratic len-of scans because length is measured outside the timer
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area:gates found-by:critic kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1192 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026

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Arena-escaping values leak 17,800 bytes at exit (xcalloc/xstrdup in arena.c) — pre-existing, and no suite program exercises the shape
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area:memory bug found-by:consumer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1184 · Opened Sep 18, 2026

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EigenOS link break: the freestanding allowlist is a ONE-SIDED contract — pthread_once/pthread_self are declared HAL roots that EigenOS never implemented
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area:embed blocks-release found-by:cold-read kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1181 · Opened Sep 18, 2026

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JIT: the EIGS_JIT_HOT 'native-byte share' metric weights chunks by frame entries, ignoring back-edges and OSR — reads 100% on a program that is ~0% native by that measure
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area:jit found-by:critic kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1179 · Opened Sep 17, 2026

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JIT: a net 2.4% SLOWDOWN on EigenMiniSat and only +4.5% on DMG — the JIT has never been measured against the interpreter on a real consumer
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area:jit kind:decision

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1178 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026

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JIT: the fixed 1 MB code cache exhausts on both flagship consumers and permanently marks 54/93 hot chunks 'unsupported' — silently
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area:jit bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1177 · Opened Sep 17, 2026

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Concurrency: cooperative TASK ids have no generation — after task_detach recycles a slot, task_join/task_alive through the OLD id resolve the NEW task (ABA); the one exception left open by #1146
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area:concurrency bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1173 · Opened Sep 16, 2026

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Concurrency: two threads writing the SAME shared-root binding corrupt its value, refcount and observer slot — a borrowed slot read races the overwrite
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area:concurrency kind:silent-wrong

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1171 · Opened Sep 16, 2026

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Embed API: a host thread that attaches to a state, evaluates, and detaches frees its intern table — names it interned (dict keys AND global env bindings, builtins included) dangle for every other thread of that state
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area:concurrency area:embed bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1162 · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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Packages: a manifest cannot declare that a package needs a runtime build variant (http/gfx/zlib/net) — the failure is an undefined builtin at import, not a clear message at install
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area:packages enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1159 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Concurrency foundation: get the threading model right before parallel/GPU work (tracking)
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area:concurrency kind:tracking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1153 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Concurrency docs and the race gate: state that a user data race is UNDEFINED (allocator corruption), enumerate the process-global surfaces for embedders, and extend the TSan slice to the shapes it never runs
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area:concurrency area:docs area:gates kind:docs-drift

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1152 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Host contract: the runtime flips the PROCESS's SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN on the first proc_spawn (and on http bind) and never restores it; print ignores flush errors, so a pipeline into head runs to completion and exits 0
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area:runtime-vm bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1151 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Concurrency: random from parallel workers shares libc's drand48 state with a racy one-shot seed — cross-worker duplicate draws
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area:concurrency bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1150 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Concurrency: exit of N inside a spawned worker does not stop the program — with the main thread blocked in recv it hangs forever; the doc never says what a worker's exit means
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area:concurrency bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1149 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Concurrency: "messages copy" is false for buffer, text_builder and closures — shared by reference through send and thread_join, with a real data race between sender and receiver
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area:concurrency kind:silent-wrong

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1148 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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Concurrency: the cycle collector is off for the REST OF THE RUN after the first spawn, not "until workers are joined" — 117x peak memory on a closure-cycle workload
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area:concurrency area:memory bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1147 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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HTTP: a code route can mutate the live route table and static root from a worker thread — unsynchronized writes racing every other worker's lookups
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area:concurrency area:http bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1140 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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CI: add a tsan-http lane — the stock tsan target compiles ext_http.c out, and #1137 was only found by an ad-hoc one
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area:ci kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 73/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1139 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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CI: macOS harness failures and timeouts block dependency PR 1125
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area:ci kind:flake

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#1126 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026

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