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Posts in 2026
  • solverforge-cli 1.1.2: Stabilized Scaffolding for the Converged Runtime

    Sunday, April 12, 2026 in Releases

    solverforge-cli 1.1.2 is now available. This is a stabilization release following the CLI/runtime convergence work in SolverForge 0.8.x. Why this release matters SolverForge 0.8.2 established a single coherent pipeline from scaffolding through to the …

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  • SolverForge 0.8.2: CLI and Runtime Convergence

    Saturday, April 11, 2026 in Releases

    SolverForge 0.8.2 is a cumulative update spanning the 0.7.x and 0.8.x lines. If you last checked in at 0.6.0, the main change is that solverforge-cli and solverforge now form one coherent developer experience. Why this release matters Building a …

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  • SolverForge 0.6.0: Scaffolding and Codegen

    Friday, March 27, 2026 in Releases

    We’re excited to announce SolverForge 0.6.0. This release focuses on onboarding and developer ergonomics: CLI scaffolding + code generation for new projects Generated collection accessors (for example, factory.shifts()) to reduce extractor …

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  • From Quickstarts to Scaffolds: Rails-Style Onboarding for SolverForge

    Friday, March 27, 2026 in Technical

    Historical transition note This article captures a transition moment in SolverForge onboarding. For the current recommended first-stop path, start with the Getting Started tutorial pages and the current `solverforge-cli` documentation. For the last …

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  • Public Means Public

    Tuesday, March 10, 2026 in Technical

    Every pub in SolverForge is a promise. Not a suggestion. Not a default that might get locked down in the next major version. Not a technicality of the language’s visibility model that we’ll retroactively paper over with a module system. A …

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  • Planner123 1.0: Your Week, Optimized

    Wednesday, March 04, 2026 in Releases

    First Product Release Planner123 is the first product built on SolverForge. It ships as a single native binary for Linux, Windows, and macOS -- no runtime, no server, no account required. We’re releasing Planner123 1.0, a desktop app that …

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  • solverforge-maps 1.0: Routing Infrastructure for VRP Solvers

    Saturday, January 24, 2026 in Releases

    Sidecar Release solverforge-maps is a standalone utility library that provides routing infrastructure for vehicle routing problems. It complements the main [SolverForge](/blog/releases/solverforge-0-5-0/) constraint solver but can be used …

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  • The Future of Constraint Programming in Rust

    Wednesday, January 21, 2026 in Blog

    Historical Context This article was published in January 2026 during the SolverForge 0.5.0 era. The core philosophy—zero-erasure architecture, incremental scoring, and Rust's performance advantages—remains valid. However, specific APIs and timelines …

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  • How We Build Frontends: jQuery in 2026

    Wednesday, January 21, 2026 in Technical

    In 2026, we still ship jQuery. This isn’t technical debt or legacy code we haven’t gotten around to modernizing. It’s an intentional choice. SolverForge quickstarts are educational demos for constraint optimization. Their purpose is …

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  • SolverForge 0.5.0: Zero-Erasure Constraint Solving

    Thursday, January 15, 2026 in Releases

    Major Release SolverForge 0.5.0 represents a complete architectural rewrite. It is no longer a WASM compiler or a wrapper around the JVM. This is a native Rust constraint solver built from the ground up with zero-erasure design and the SERIO …

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