Twelve principles
Softanza rebuilds programming from first principles. Twelve ideas hold it up; each is one sentence here, and the other pages of this section show where each one stands.
1 · Declare a language
Softanza's approach to programming in the agentic age, not today's practice: you do not write software, you declare your world in a language made for it, and you govern how that world changes.
2 · Everything is judged
A narration is written to run as it is read; a promise is checked by running; a guard counts its assertions. What did not run is not shown, on this site either.
3 · One engine, many faces
Substance lives in the Zig engine; the language is its face, and a future face shares the same engine.
4 · Agents that cannot hurt you
An AI model proposes; a workbench rehearses; a court judges; only a governed actor commits.
5 · Knowledge of your world
Softanza knows your world, not the world's facts in general: its entities, rules, actors and flows, declared in plain text.
6 · Code that reads
The human is the parser: find first, then apply; names are verbs; a natural-language instruction runs.
7 · In your language
The course has four editions, English, French, Arabic and Hausa, the last three still drafts (0 of 35 units reviewed); the engine counts letters, not bytes; the same instruction runs in the four languages.
8 · Exact by default
An integer is exact at any size; a decimal says it is decimal; the algebra is proven against an oracle.
9 · Honest by design
The Atlas shows the low ratings beside the high ones; every product carries its stage; no figure without a file.
10 · Sovereign by construction
Nothing anyone else can withdraw: a verdict per dependency, plain text you keep, a machine you declare.
11 · Programming by heart
What you think is what you write. The court is severe so that the surface can stay warm; a tutor asks and never gives the answer.
12 · Born in Africa
Designed between Tunisia, Niamey and Paris; a bank and a restaurant as references; a machine named after a bridge.