Pipeline Overview

.cat source
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│  Tokenizer   │  Character-by-character → tokens (IDENT, NUMBER, STRING, etc.)
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│   Parser     │  Tokens → AST (Intermediate Representation)
│  (Taste)     │  Handles indent-based or bracket-based syntax
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│    RAWs       │  (Built-in symbol definitions)
│   Interning   │
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│  Optimizer   │  Dead code elimination, inlining, constant folding
│   (-O1/-O2)  │  Loop unrolling, peephole optimization
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│  UI Linker   │  Resolves page. references → global IDs
│              │  Reads .catui for path→globalID mapping
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│   Emitter    │  IR → CatWeb JSON actions
│              │  Coordinate grid, ID gen, slot filling
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│  Builder     │  Merges scripts with UI tree
│              │  Generates {favicon, webcontent, ...} output
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   CatWeb JSON