Circuits Are Not Functions. That Confusion Will Break You

The last post in this series covered the surface illusion: Compact looks like TypeScript, but it isn't. Same syntax, completely different model. This post goes one level deeper. Into the most specific version of that mistake, the one that actually stalls people in the middle of building something. "A circuit is just a function." It isn't. And the gap between those two things is where most of the confusion lives. Why the confusion is so sticky The syntax is deliberately familiar: export circuit t