Glossary
Terms and definitions
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Sanguis | The language |
| VANA | The engine/runtime ("Voltage Activated Neural Architecture") |
| Circuit | A body, a named scope of holds and routes |
| Hold | A named value (scalar or text) |
| Cell | A function. Inside an organ, a method |
| Tick | One execution cycle, all routes evaluated in parallel |
| Emit | Send a value to a target (hold or screen), replacing content |
| Append | Accumulate text into a text hold, concatenating |
| Through | Iterate through text one character per tick |
| Wire | Connectome link between circuits |
| Gate | A condition check that controls whether a route fires |
| BloodCode (.bc) | The compiled artifact: organ manifest plus program instructions, stored as readable text |
| Compiler | Compiles Sanguis source into BloodCode, the portable artifact (written in Sanguis itself) |
| Runtime (ad) | Presses BloodCode into the grid and settles it on the GPU |