Ved is a deterministic control-plane programming language for building reliable, long-running orchestration systems.

It focuses on describing how complex distributed software environments should evolve and stabilize over time rather than implementing application business logic.

Modern systems consist of many interacting services, workflows, and autonomous components. The logic that governs their deployment, coordination, scaling, and recovery is often implemented through ad-hoc scripts or controller frameworks.

Ved explores a programming model where:

• desired system behaviour is expressed as stable goals
• execution is deterministic and replayable
• persistent state evolution is a first-class concern
• authority and isolation boundaries are enforced statically
• orchestration logic becomes analyzable and reproducible

• ved-runtime
  Deterministic execution engine responsible for scheduling, persistence, and effect orchestration.

• ved-compiler
  Language frontend that transforms Ved source programs into executable bundles.

• ved-cli
  Command-line tooling for compiling, running, and inspecting Ved systems.

Ved is in early design and prototyping stages.

Current focus areas include:

• deterministic scheduling model
• persistent state journal and replay
• goal-driven convergence semantics
• authority-aware orchestration structure

Distributed runtime capabilities and advanced tooling are planned for later phases after core execution behaviour is validated.

Design discussions are ongoing.
Contributors interested in distributed systems, orchestration reliability, and deterministic execution models are encouraged to participate.

Please open issues to discuss ideas before submitting large changes.

Core repositories are released under the Apache License 2.0.