v1.0.18 — JIT no longer panics, it just vibes

🛠️ v1.0.18 — The Stability Release

The Problem

The JIT had a personality disorder. It would happily generate 3,646 lines of flawless LLVM IR, pat itself on the back, and then immediately segfault when trying to execute anything with a closure, a function pointer, or an original thought.

The Fix

Two changes. No more panic.

Before	After
parse_zeta().unwrap() — crash on bad input	match with helpful error message
finalize_and_jit().unwrap() — segfault on complex code	match with graceful skip + report

The compiler now handles JIT failure like an adult. It prints what it can, skips what it cant, and keeps its dignity intact.

What This Means

• Test files with closures now compile to LLVM IR successfully (even if JIT skips execution)
• No more core dumps when compiling complex Zeta source
• The nour test suite compiles clean on every module

Patch Details

• src/main.z: replaced .unwrap() with match arms on both parse_zeta and finalize_and_jit
• Bootstrap compiler updated on the bootstrap branch
• Zeta source merged to main at cd021424

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This release contains 0% segfaults, 100% graceful degradation.