One idea, many files
The declared languages
In Softanza you declare, and what you declare is a file in a small language made for the subject. Here they are in one table: what each declares, and how far each has come.
| Language | What it declares | Stage | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
W | a condition inside an argument | built | Writing |
.zknw | what a world or an agent knows: entities, relations, rules | built | Wise coding |
.pia | an agent: what it covers, how reversible its acts are, its skills | built | for-agents.html#path |
.stzapp, .stzplatform | an application, and a platform made of them | built (the format) | Applications |
.machine, .fleet, .pack | a machine, the links between machines, the servers placed on one | built, emulated | for-architects.html#path |
.zgov | a governance regime: who may commit what | built | Security |
.zcnv | a conversation, as a record | built | Conversations |
.panel | an interface, authored as text and drawn by a native renderer | in construction | Surfaces |
.wflow | a workflow | in construction | for-analysts.html#path |
.face | a face of an interface | in construction (no generator yet) | Surfaces |
.game | a game, and the gamification of a learner's ladder | ratified proposal (charter ratified, no code) | Education |
.zdlm | a domain's own voice, when it is forged | designed | Aïcha |
.stzn | a notebook of cells | named | The estate, stage by stage |
The Softanza way A language is named by its file, and a file is judged by a court when it is loaded. What you write is plain text you own, and a declaration that the court refuses never runs.
in construction Each row is a reading of the library and of the charters and READMEs of the estate's other repositories, by an outside assessment on 2026-10-07, and not a run. The grammar and the court of each language are told on the page in the last column; where there is no such page yet, the row is the whole account.