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CEP-0053: Ecosystem Tooling and Platform APIs

Draft

Draft proposal family entry for filesystem, clocks, threads, processes, networking, platform APIs, project templates, documentation generation, package registry, and ecosystem tooling.

Summary

Catalyst should eventually define large ecosystem and platform API work, but these areas are outside V1 and should be split into focused proposals before acceptance.

V1 only establishes the language, compiler, prelude, and standard-library skeleton needed for initial implementation.

Example

Possible future split:

CEP: std.fs and platform paths
CEP: std.time clocks and timers
CEP: package registry and publishing
CEP: documentation generation
CEP: project templates

This file stays broad only as a parking-lot map. Each listed area should become a focused proposal before acceptance.

Motivation

Platform APIs and ecosystem tooling are necessary for a complete language ecosystem. They are also broad enough to need separate design ownership for each area.

Proposed Direction

Future focused proposals should cover:

  • filesystem, clocks, threads, processes, networking, and platform APIs;
  • package registry;
  • project templates;
  • documentation generation;
  • ecosystem tooling.

V1 Compatibility

V1 does not include these APIs or tools as language-scope requirements.