Deferred Stdlib Surfaces

2026-06-29

Warning

This is the current planned CLEAR stdlib design. Full stdlib implementation and stabilization are not planned until v0.3. Treat these pages as design direction, not as a compatibility promise.

These packages are important, but they should not block the first self-host stdlib prototype.

Regex And Scanner

Regex and scanner support are self-host relevant, but they are deferred for implementation planning because there is not yet a Zig stdlib fallback we can rely on.

The design direction remains:

no Ruby-style global match state;
explicit Match values;
explicit scanner position/matched text;
unsupported regex constructs fail closed.

Network

TCP resources exist as intrinsics today, but broad network design is not self-host critical. Network APIs need package permissions and explicit NETWORK_READ / NETWORK_WRITE effects before they become public.

Crypto, Compression, Archives, HTTP, TLS

These are launch-quality stdlib candidates, not self-host blockers. They should wait until the core error/effect/capability/package model is stable enough that we can avoid redesigning them immediately.

Source: docs/stdlib/deferred.md