Status

A7 is pre-1.0. The compiler is usable for the checked example suite, but the language and stdlib are still intentionally small. The authoritative status document is docs/STATUS.md.

Current surface

• Zig is the only supported public backend
• Source recursion is rejected at compile time
• The example suite is verified against golden output fixtures
• Static docs site with raw markdown and agent corpus files

Active priorities

• Multi-file A7 source support with single-file Zig output
• Generic specialization before broad cross-module generic workflows
• Clearer status reporting for parsed-only language features
• Practical stdlib additions starting with deterministic random helpers

Known gaps

• File-backed imports, using import, and broad cross-module type checking remain follow-up work
• Fixed-width overflow, union discriminant access, and full ref/del alias behavior are incomplete
• Multiple return value destructuring, tagged union tag workflows, and variadic runtime lowering are not current backend features
• Option, Result, collections, and fuller string/memory helpers are planned stdlib work

Deferred

• Package registry
• File and network IO in the stdlib
• Concurrency primitives
• Full language server
• Runtime sandboxing

If a feature is listed here as deferred, do not write public examples that rely on it as if it is complete.

For release gates and deploy checks, see Release.