Sigil Language Design Articles

Articles documenting the evolution and design decisions of the Sigil programming language.

The published article list below is generated from the article markdown files themselves, so this page stays in sync with the repo without maintaining a second hand-written index.

About These Articles

These articles document real design decisions made during Sigil's development. They serve as:

• Design rationale - Why we made specific choices
• Educational material - Teaching machine-first language design
• Historical record - Evolution of the language
• Philosophy guide - Core principles applied in practice

Each article is written at the time of the design decision, capturing the reasoning and trade-offs in real-time.

Writing Style

Articles should read like technical blog posts, not social media posts.

Prefer:

• clear problem statements
• direct explanation of the decision
• concrete technical tradeoffs
• normal paragraph structure

Avoid:

• "LinkedIn broetry" paragraphing
• sloganized binaries
• hype-heavy hooks
• dramatic one-line emphasis in place of explanation