Roadmap

Ovid's first commit is from 2026-10-03. v0 is the smallest language that can compile itself, and the toolchain around it; most of what it lacks, it lacks because it is new.

Committed

These are recorded in COMMITMENTS.md and not implemented yet.

• HTTP as the first standard library. Network is part of the language: the best HTTP client, harder to misuse than Go's net/http.
• URL imports. The import syntax stays and the path is still the package name; a path that is a URL is fetched with the HTTP capability instead of read from the module directory.
• Serving programs. The same capability serves user programs. When it does, this site will be served by one.

Not there yet

The language reference describes v0 by what it does not have. None of it is ruled out:

• strings, slices, arrays, and struct values
• globals, closures, function pointers, methods, and generics
• more than six parameters, or more than one result
• for, break, and continue
• targets other than Linux x86-64
• a package server

Not on this site yet

• the command protocol as a page, from docs/PROTOCOL.md
• the agent tasks and every recorded run, from tests/agent and docs/agent-runs
• the self-hosted compiler's size and build times, from ovid's CI benchmark