@scriptc/compiler 0.2.10 → 0.3.0

package/dist/frontend/lowering/lower-exprs.js

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ import { lowerUnionFieldRead, lowerUnionFieldWrite } from "./expressions/union-f
 import { captureContextArguments } from "./function-context.js";
 import { OBJECT_CALLABLE_VALUES } from "./surfaces.js";
 import { wasiGuestPath } from "../../wasi-paths.js";
-import { BIGINT_T, BYTES_ELEMENT_NAME, BOOL, CAUGHT, DYN, DYN_HANDLE_KINDS, F64, JSVAL, NULL_T, REF_TRUTHY_KINDS, REGEX, RUNTIME_ERROR_CLASSES, SEARCH_PARAMS_T, STRING, UNDEFINED_T, VOID, arrayOf, canAdaptDynFuncTo, canDynCheckTo, canBoxFuncIntoDyn, funcOf, isDynTypedRefType, isSupportedArrayElem, isUnitType, jsOpResultKind, shapeHasAccessorSlots, typeEquals, typeKey, unionContainerArmsOk, } from "../../ir/ir.js";
+import { BIGINT_T, BYTES_ELEMENT_NAME, BOOL, CAUGHT, DYN, DYN_HANDLE_KINDS, F64, NULL_T, REF_TRUTHY_KINDS, REGEX, RUNTIME_ERROR_CLASSES, SEARCH_PARAMS_T, STRING, UNDEFINED_T, VOID, arrayOf, canAdaptDynFuncTo, canDynCheckTo, canBoxFuncIntoDyn, funcOf, isDynTypedRefType, isSupportedArrayElem, isUnitType, shapeHasAccessorSlots, typeEquals, typeKey, unionContainerArmsOk, } from "../../ir/ir.js";
 import { cjsClassExprWholeExportOf, cjsExportAssignmentOf, cjsExportDiscardReason, isCjsExportTableLiteral, isCjsJsFile, isJsSourceFile, isModuleExportsAccess, isNodeEsmFile, locOf, } from "../program.js";
-import { ARRAY_METHODS, builtinConstLit, builtinFenceHintOf, builtinModuleConstOf, builtinModulesArrayLit, builtinModuleFnOf, COMPOUND_ASSIGN_OPS, ISLAND_SURFACE, isChildSurfaceMember, MAP_METHODS, NARROW_FIRST, SET_METHODS, STRING_INDEX_METHODS, STR_METHODS, UNSUPPORTED_EXPR, sideEffectFreeOptionValue, stdlibGlobalNameOf, } from "./surfaces.js";
-import { UNSUPPORTED, blockedBindingUseDiag, requiresDynamicPackageDiag, unsupportedDiag, } from "../../diagnostics/diagnostic.js";
+import { ARRAY_METHODS, builtinConstLit, builtinFenceHintOf, builtinModuleConstOf, builtinModulesArrayLit, builtinModuleFnOf, COMPOUND_ASSIGN_OPS, STDLIB_SURFACE, isChildSurfaceMember, MAP_METHODS, NARROW_FIRST, SET_METHODS, STRING_INDEX_METHODS, STR_METHODS, UNSUPPORTED_EXPR, sideEffectFreeOptionValue, stdlibGlobalNameOf, } from "./surfaces.js";
+import { UNSUPPORTED, blockedBindingUseDiag, unsupportedPackageValueDiag, unsupportedDiag, } from "../../diagnostics/diagnostic.js";
 import { PoisonError, dynFallbackType, jsFuncNameOf, neverTaintedJsType, own } from "./lowerer.js";
 import { lowerCollectionSpread } from "./containers/collection-methods.js";
 import { arrayValueRead, arrayValueStore, arrayValueType, lowerSafeIndexRead, tryLowerIndexTruthiness, tryLowerNumericIndexRead, lowerSafeBytesRead, } from "./array-values.js";
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ import { lowerYield } from "./lower-generators.js";
 import { errorPropertyRead, errorPropertyWrite, errorToStringCall } from "./error-methods.js";
 import { lowerStreamProperty, lowerStreamStateProperty, streamSidesOf } from "./lower-stream.js";
 import { unionWideningTags } from "../../ir/analysis.js";
-import { isSafeToDiscard, isSafeToMoveConditionEarlier, isSafeToRepeat, } from "./expressions/evaluation-safety.js";
+import { isSafeToDiscard, isSafeToRepeat } from "./expressions/evaluation-safety.js";
 import { globalSymbolKey } from "./expressions/global-symbols.js";
 import { lowerShortCircuitAssignment } from "./expressions/nullish-assignment.js";
 import { hasOptionalChainGuard, isOptionalChainTail, isRequireMainFilename, } from "./expressions/optional-chains.js";
-import { conditionalSpreadOf, foldedStringKeyOf } from "./expressions/object-literals.js";
+import { foldedStringKeyOf } from "./expressions/object-literals.js";
 import { tryLowerExpression } from "./expressions/try-lower-expression.js";
 import { fenceNodeModuleMutation, isNodeModuleValue, lowerNodeModuleIdentifier, lowerNodeModuleProperty, lowerRequireCacheElement, lowerRequireCacheHas, lowerRequireMainProperty, } from "./lower-node-module.js";
 import { lowerAbstractEquality } from "./abstract-equality.js";
@@ -378,335 +378,6 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         }
         lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, "'void' with an effectful operand in value position (hoist the operand to its own statement — statement-position 'void e' and void-returning arrow bodies compile)");
     }
-    // Literals in an `any`-typed slot (the CONTEXTUAL type is what the
-    // record/array lowerings would consult) build natively in the island:
-    // each value lowers statically and marshals in. An UNMAPPABLE
-    // contextual type falls back to the literal's own type, exactly like
-    // lowerObjectLiteral's fallback — a package call's options parameter
-    // is often an unmappable intersection while the literal's own type
-    // absorbs to jsval (a bare-jsval field, an npm-typed member).
-    if ((ts.isObjectLiteralExpression(expr) || ts.isArrayLiteralExpression(expr)) &&
-        (() => {
-            const ctxTs = lowerer.checker.getContextualType(expr);
-            const mapped = (ctxTs ? lowerer.mapTypeOf(ctxTs) : null) ?? lowerer.mapTypeOf(lowerer.typeOf(expr));
-            if (mapped?.kind !== "jsval")
-                return false;
-            // The tsgo readonly-[] panic repair (see lowerArrayLiteral): an
-            // EMPTY array literal under a const assertion is the empty tuple —
-            // its `any` answer is a panicked query, not an island slot.
-            if (ts.isArrayLiteralExpression(expr) &&
-                expr.elements.length === 0 &&
-                underConstAssertion(expr)) {
-                return false;
-            }
-            // A JS variable INITIALIZER whose BINDING registered as a
-            // checked-dynamic module global (the typedef-annotated
-            // doc-builder consts whose JSDoc types degraded — DYN slots):
-            // the island build could never land (no engine→dyn crossing
-            // exists), so the literal takes its own world's path instead —
-            // the dyn literal, or a static record the slot converts.
-            if (isJsSourceFile(expr.getSourceFile()) &&
-                ts.isVariableDeclaration(expr.parent) &&
-                expr.parent.initializer === expr &&
-                ts.isIdentifier(expr.parent.name)) {
-                const bindSym = lowerer.checker.getSymbolAtLocation(expr.parent.name);
-                const g = bindSym ? lowerer.globalsBySymbol.get(bindSym) : undefined;
-                if (g?.type.kind === "dyn")
-                    return false;
-            }
-            // A PROJECT-DECLARED contextual type that only ABSORBED to the
-            // island (a doc-builder typedef whose field's JSDoc type
-            // reference degraded to checker-`any` — the tsgo multi-file
-            // value-as-type residue) is not an npm slot: when the literal's
-            // OWN type maps statically, it builds that way — the binding's
-            // checked-dynamic slot takes the dyn conversion. Genuinely
-            // island slots (npm .d.ts provenance, plain `any`) keep the
-            // native build.
-            if (ctxTs !== undefined && (ctxTs.flags & ts.TypeFlags.Any) === 0) {
-                // Intersection/tuple typedefs (`Line & {readonly soft: true}`)
-                // carry provenance on the ALIAS symbol.
-                const sym = ctxTs.getSymbol() ?? ctxTs.getAliasSymbol();
-                const decls = sym ? lowerer.checker.declarationsOf(sym) : [];
-                const projectDeclared = decls.length > 0 &&
-                    decls.every((d) => {
-                        const sf = d.getSourceFile();
-                        return !sf.isDeclarationFile && !sf.fileName.includes("/node_modules/");
-                    });
-                if (projectDeclared) {
-                    // A spread already stored in the island must copy there too.
-                    // Later overrides can make the literal's own inferred shape
-                    // appear static without making that source a native record.
-                    if (ts.isObjectLiteralExpression(expr) &&
-                        expr.properties.some((p) => ts.isSpreadAssignment(p) &&
-                            lowerer.mapTypeOf(lowerer.typeOf(p.expression))?.kind === "jsval")) {
-                        return true;
-                    }
-                    const own = lowerer.mapTypeOf(lowerer.typeOf(expr));
-                    if (own?.kind === "record" || own?.kind === "array")
-                        return false;
-                }
-            }
-            return true;
-        })()) {
-        if (ts.isObjectLiteralExpression(expr)) {
-            // Two engine literals when a CONDITIONAL spread participates
-            // (`{ a, ...(c ? { k: v } : {}) }` — the optional-key idiom): the
-            // whole literal becomes `c ? objLit(with) : objLit(without)`. The
-            // shared properties' nodes ride BOTH arms (exactly one arm
-            // evaluates, so each property still evaluates once); the reorder
-            // of `c` before earlier properties is unobservable because the
-            // condition must be a side-effect-free read. The spread arm's keys
-            // are truly ABSENT when the empty arm is taken — engine-exact
-            // (`"k" in o` is false), which the static record path can't say.
-            const argsWithout = [];
-            const argsWith = [];
-            const getters = [];
-            let spread = null;
-            // A MEMBER a JS file cannot lower or marshal: defer like a
-            // statement fence, shaped by what the member IS. A FUNCTION-shaped
-            // member (a generic function as a value, a signature with
-            // checked-dynamic parameters — the doc-builder public aggregate's
-            // degraded pieces) becomes a host closure that THROWS the captured
-            // diagnostic when invoked — building the aggregate compiles and
-            // only a CALL through the island stops the run. A DATA-shaped
-            // member must NOT become a callable (the retired fence box's
-            // silent wrong answers: typeof said "function", downstream errors
-            // blamed the wrong thing — the withPlugins `plugins:` slot), so it
-            // defines through the engine's getter machinery instead: READING
-            // the member throws the diagnostic — the honest granularity, since
-            // using the value is exactly what cannot be answered. `getterName`
-            // null keeps the closure shape (function-shaped members, and the
-            // conditional-spread arms where getters cannot combine).
-            const islandMemberFence = (diagsBefore, err, valueNode, getterName = null) => {
-                if (!isJsSourceFile(expr.getSourceFile()))
-                    throw err;
-                const fence = lowerer.deferToRuntimeFence(diagsBefore, valueNode, {
-                    kind: "closure",
-                    name: () => `%fn${lowerer.lambdaCounter++}_islfence`,
-                    returnType: VOID,
-                    type: { kind: "func", params: [], ret: VOID },
-                });
-                if (!fence)
-                    throw err;
-                if (getterName !== null) {
-                    getters.push({
-                        name: getterName,
-                        fn: lowerer.jsvalIn(fence, valueNode),
-                        loc: locOf(valueNode),
-                    });
-                    return null;
-                }
-                return lowerer.jsvalIn(fence, valueNode);
-            };
-            // The member's SHAPE decides the fence's granularity: syntactic
-            // functions and checker-callable values keep the call-time
-            // closure; everything else (call results, awaits, data reads —
-            // the withPlugins `plugins:` shape) fences at the READ.
-            const funcShapedMember = (p) => {
-                if (ts.isMethodDeclaration(p))
-                    return true;
-                const src = ts.isPropertyAssignment(p)
-                    ? p.initializer
-                    : ts.isShorthandPropertyAssignment(p)
-                        ? p.name
-                        : null;
-                if (!src || !ts.isExpression(src))
-                    return true; // unknown form: keep the closure shape
-                let inner = src;
-                while (ts.isParenthesizedExpression(inner))
-                    inner = inner.expression;
-                if (ts.isArrowFunction(inner) || ts.isFunctionExpression(inner))
-                    return true;
-                return lowerer.checker.getCallSignatures(lowerer.typeOf(src)).length > 0;
-            };
-            const pushProp = (name, value, valueNode, into) => {
-                const diagsBefore = lowerer.diags.length;
-                let marshaled;
-                try {
-                    marshaled = lowerer.jsvalIn(value, valueNode);
-                }
-                catch (err) {
-                    // A value that LOWERED but cannot cross (a promise, a class
-                    // instance): func-typed values keep the call-time closure;
-                    // data-shaped values fence at the read (the getter), unless a
-                    // conditional spread owns the literal (getters cannot combine).
-                    if (!(err instanceof PoisonError))
-                        throw err;
-                    const asGetter = value.type.kind !== "func" && spread === null;
-                    const fence = islandMemberFence(diagsBefore, err, valueNode, asGetter ? name.text : null);
-                    if (fence === null)
-                        return; // registered as a fence getter — no data property
-                    marshaled = fence;
-                }
-                for (const args of into) {
-                    args.push({
-                        kind: "jsMarshal",
-                        value: { kind: "strLit", value: name.text, type: STRING, loc: locOf(name) },
-                        type: JSVAL,
-                        loc: locOf(name),
-                    });
-                    args.push(marshaled);
-                }
-            };
-            const spreadSrcs = [];
-            let sawPlainProp = false;
-            for (const prop of expr.properties) {
-                if (ts.isSpreadAssignment(prop)) {
-                    const cs = conditionalSpreadOf(prop.expression);
-                    if (cs && cs !== "unsupported" && !spread) {
-                        if (spreadSrcs.length > 0) {
-                            lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", prop, "a conditional spread mixed with plain spreads in an 'any'-typed object literal");
-                        }
-                        const cond = lowerer.lowerCondition(cs.cond);
-                        if (!isSafeToMoveConditionEarlier(cond)) {
-                            lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", prop, "conditional spreads with effectful conditions in an 'any'-typed object literal (bind the condition to a const first)");
-                        }
-                        spread = { cond, whenTrue: cs.whenTrue };
-                        for (const p of cs.props) {
-                            const v = ts.isPropertyAssignment(p)
-                                ? lowerer.lowerExpr(p.initializer)
-                                : lowerer.lowerShorthandValue(p);
-                            pushProp(p.name, v, p, [argsWith]);
-                        }
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                    // A PLAIN spread (`{ ...options, plugins }` — the withPlugins
-                    // argument-rebuild shape): the source copies into the fresh
-                    // engine object through the spec's CopyDataProperties (the
-                    // objSpread op). Spreads must precede explicit properties
-                    // (the composition applies explicit keys AFTER the copies —
-                    // JS's later-wins — which a spread after them would invert);
-                    // mixing with a conditional spread keeps the fence.
-                    if (cs === undefined || cs === null) {
-                        if (sawPlainProp || spread) {
-                            lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", prop, "object spread after explicit properties (or mixed with a conditional spread) in an 'any'-typed object literal — spreads must come first");
-                        }
-                        spreadSrcs.push(lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(prop.expression), prop.expression));
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                    lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", prop, "this spread form in an 'any'-typed object literal (one `...(c ? { k: v } : {})` conditional spread is supported — bind other shapes to a const and set keys explicitly)");
-                }
-                sawPlainProp = true;
-                // `name: value`, the shorthand `{ name }` (the value is the
-                // identifier itself, resolved through the shorthand VALUE symbol
-                // like the static record path), and METHODS — `{ load() {...} }`
-                // is a function expression under a shorthand name, marshaled
-                // like any closure value (this-uses keep the static path's
-                // rejection); everything else keeps the fence. Identifier and
-                // string-literal keys — engine property names have no
-                // identifier restriction ("content-type").
-                const name = prop.name;
-                // A GET accessor (`get root() { return ROOT_INDENT; }` — the
-                // doc-printer's self-referential root-indent shape): the body
-                // lowers as a zero-param closure marshaled into the engine, and
-                // the property defines through the engine's own getter
-                // machinery AFTER the literal builds (the defineGetter op) —
-                // reads through the handle invoke it natively. `this` in the
-                // body keeps the object-method rejection; setters stay fenced.
-                if (ts.isGetAccessorDeclaration(prop) &&
-                    prop.body &&
-                    name &&
-                    (ts.isIdentifier(name) || ts.isStringLiteral(name))) {
-                    lowerer.rejectThisInObjectMethod(prop.body);
-                    getters.push({
-                        name: name.text,
-                        fn: lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerLambda(prop), prop),
-                        loc: locOf(prop),
-                    });
-                    continue;
-                }
-                // A member VALUE that cannot lower at all (a generic function
-                // referenced as a value — the aggregate's `align`): the same
-                // call-time fence deferral pushProp applies to marshal failures.
-                let value = null;
-                const valueDiagsBefore = lowerer.diags.length;
-                try {
-                    value = ts.isPropertyAssignment(prop)
-                        ? lowerer.lowerExpr(prop.initializer)
-                        : ts.isShorthandPropertyAssignment(prop)
-                            ? lowerer.lowerShorthandValue(prop)
-                            : ts.isMethodDeclaration(prop) && prop.body
-                                ? (lowerer.rejectThisInObjectMethod(prop.body), lowerer.lowerLambda(prop))
-                                : null;
-                }
-                catch (err) {
-                    if (!(err instanceof PoisonError))
-                        throw err;
-                    const nameText = name && (ts.isIdentifier(name) || ts.isStringLiteral(name)) ? name.text : null;
-                    const asGetter = nameText !== null && spread === null && !funcShapedMember(prop);
-                    value = islandMemberFence(valueDiagsBefore, err, prop, asGetter ? nameText : null);
-                    if (value === null)
-                        continue; // registered as a fence getter — no data property
-                }
-                if (value && name && (ts.isIdentifier(name) || ts.isStringLiteral(name))) {
-                    pushProp(name, value, prop, [argsWithout, argsWith]);
-                }
-                else {
-                    lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", prop, "this property form in an 'any'-typed object literal (only `name: value`, shorthand names, methods, and get accessors are supported)");
-                }
-            }
-            const withGetters = (obj) => getters.reduce((acc, g) => ({
-                kind: "jsOp",
-                op: "defineGetter",
-                args: [
-                    acc,
-                    {
-                        kind: "jsMarshal",
-                        value: { kind: "strLit", value: g.name, type: STRING, loc: g.loc },
-                        type: JSVAL,
-                        loc: g.loc,
-                    },
-                    g.fn,
-                ],
-                type: JSVAL,
-                loc: g.loc,
-            }), obj);
-            if (!spread) {
-                if (spreadSrcs.length === 0) {
-                    return withGetters({ kind: "jsOp", op: "objLit", args: argsWithout, type: JSVAL, loc });
-                }
-                // Plain spreads compose left to right onto a fresh object, the
-                // explicit properties merging LAST (JS's later-wins): spread
-                // sources evaluate before later property values by nesting
-                // order, exactly the source order.
-                let acc = { kind: "jsOp", op: "objLit", args: [], type: JSVAL, loc };
-                for (const src of spreadSrcs) {
-                    acc = { kind: "jsOp", op: "objSpread", args: [acc, src], type: JSVAL, loc };
-                }
-                if (argsWithout.length > 0) {
-                    acc = {
-                        kind: "jsOp",
-                        op: "objSpread",
-                        args: [acc, { kind: "jsOp", op: "objLit", args: argsWithout, type: JSVAL, loc }],
-                        type: JSVAL,
-                        loc,
-                    };
-                }
-                return withGetters(acc);
-            }
-            if (getters.length > 0) {
-                lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, "get accessors combined with conditional spreads in an 'any'-typed object literal");
-            }
-            const withLit = { kind: "jsOp", op: "objLit", args: argsWith, type: JSVAL, loc };
-            const withoutLit = {
-                kind: "jsOp",
-                op: "objLit",
-                args: argsWithout,
-                type: JSVAL,
-                loc,
-            };
-            return {
-                kind: "ternary",
-                cond: spread.cond,
-                then: spread.whenTrue ? withLit : withoutLit,
-                else_: spread.whenTrue ? withoutLit : withLit,
-                type: JSVAL,
-                loc,
-            };
-        }
-        const args = expr.elements.map((el) => lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(el), el));
-        return { kind: "jsOp", op: "arrLit", args, type: JSVAL, loc };
-    }
     if (ts.isTypeOfExpression(expr)) {
         if (lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.expression, "process"))
             return { kind: "strLit", value: "object", type: STRING, loc };
@@ -760,7 +431,7 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
             tested = tested.expression;
         if (ts.isIdentifier(tested)) {
             const sym = lowerer.checker.getSymbolAtLocation(tested);
-            if (!sym && !lowerer.dynamic) {
+            if (!sym) {
                 return { kind: "strLit", value: "undefined", type: STRING, loc };
             }
             if (lowerer.isStdlibSymbol(sym)) {
@@ -775,9 +446,6 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         // still evaluates: calls, getters, and checked reads can have effects
         // or throw. Only trivial operands may disappear.
         let operand = deferredSlotOr(lowerer, runtimeOptionalStorageOperand(lowerer, expr.expression) ?? lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.expression));
-        if (operand.type.kind === "jsval") {
-            return { kind: "jsOp", op: "typeof", args: [operand], type: STRING, loc };
-        }
         // A checker-narrowed dyn read arrives as a VALIDATED extraction
         // (maybeNarrow's dynCheck bridge). typeof needs no extraction — the
         // dyn kind table answers the question directly, and answers it even
@@ -1246,19 +914,14 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         if (lowerer.cjsLocalModuleBindingOf(expr)) {
             lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `module namespace objects as values (access '${expr.text}' members directly)`);
         }
-        if (lowerer.islandGlobalFnOf(expr)) {
-            // Island-backed functions have no closure representation (they
-            // lower to engine ops at call sites only).
+        if (lowerer.stdlibGlobalFnOf(expr)) {
             lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `library functions as values (call '${expr.text}' directly)`);
         }
-        // npm import bindings in a STATIC build: the binding's value lives
-        // in the embedded engine — the per-package requires-dynamic
-        // diagnostic, not the generic fallthrough. (Under --dynamic these
-        // resolve as jsval globals above.)
-        if (!lowerer.dynamic) {
+        // A declaration-only npm binding has no compiled runtime value.
+        {
             const pkg = lowerer.npmPackageOfSymbol(lowerer.resolveValueSymbol(expr) ?? undefined);
             if (pkg) {
-                lowerer.pushDiag(requiresDynamicPackageDiag(pkg, loc));
+                lowerer.pushDiag(unsupportedPackageValueDiag(pkg, loc));
                 throw new PoisonError();
             }
         }
@@ -1356,13 +1019,13 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
             }
             return { kind: "closure", fnName: name, captures: [], type, loc };
         }
-        if (!lowerer.dynamic && lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr, "crypto"))
+        if (lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr, "crypto"))
             return { kind: "libCall", fn: "crypto.native", args: [], type: DYN, loc };
         const nativeAlias = stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr);
         if (nativeAlias === "Buffer" && expr.text !== "Buffer") {
             return { kind: "strLit", value: "[builtin Buffer]", type: STRING, loc };
         }
-        if (!lowerer.dynamic && lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr, "fetch")) {
+        if (lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr, "fetch")) {
             return { kind: "libCall", fn: "fetch.function", args: [], type: DYN, loc };
         }
         // The lib fence's IDENTIFIER chokepoint: the real standard library
@@ -1378,7 +1041,7 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         // global, one token; what a token cannot do (be called, answer
         // typeof "function") meets per-site fences/divergences, and
         // SEMANTICS.md documents the stance.
-        if (!lowerer.dynamic && stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr) === "globalThis") {
+        if (stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr) === "globalThis") {
             return lowerGlobalValue(lowerer, expr);
         }
         {
@@ -1388,13 +1051,6 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
                     const canonical = stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr) ?? expr.text;
                     return { kind: "strLit", value: `[builtin ${canonical}]`, type: STRING, loc };
                 }
-                // In a dynamic TypeScript build, the real global object is the
-                // escape hatch for host capabilities without static lowering.
-                // Direct globalThis.member uses still take their static surface
-                // paths; an explicit `as any` or `: any` can reach engine ops.
-                if (lowerer.dynamic && expr.text === "globalThis") {
-                    return { kind: "jsOp", op: "globalGet", name: "globalThis", args: [], type: JSVAL, loc };
-                }
                 // The families with a WHY: each hint states what makes the
                 // surface genuinely non-static (or what to use instead).
                 const globalHints = {
@@ -1643,9 +1299,8 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
                 const promiseArm = def.arms[promiseTag];
                 const inner = promiseArm.kind === "promise" ? promiseArm.inner : VOID;
                 const units = def.arms.filter(isUnitType);
-                if (inner.kind === "union" || inner.kind === "dyn" || inner.kind === "jsval") {
+                if (inner.kind === "union" || inner.kind === "dyn") {
                     // A union inner would need an arm-wise re-tag into the result
-                    // union; dyn/jsval inners have their own boundary stories.
                     lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `awaiting '${lowerer.fmt(value.type)}' (the promise's inner type has no combined result union — await the promise arm after narrowing instead)`);
                 }
                 let type;
@@ -1675,27 +1330,6 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
             if (value.type.kind === "dyn") {
                 return { kind: "libCall", fn: "async.awaitDyn", args: [value], type: DYN, loc };
             }
-            // A jsval whose CHECKER type is a promise is a package-returned
-            // promise: the value lives in the engine. Bridge it — a static
-            // promise the engine promise settles (fulfillment = the retained
-            // handle or void, rejection = the bridged reason) — and await
-            // THAT: the fiber parks like any await, resumes with the settled
-            // jsval, or re-throws the crossed rejection.
-            if (value.type.kind === "jsval") {
-                // ANY island value bridges — the runtime's Promise.resolve(v)
-                // .then(...) wiring awaits thenables and non-thenables exactly
-                // like JS (`await reg.load()` where the checker only knows
-                // 'any' must still park on the returned engine promise).
-                const mapped = lowerer.mapTypeOf(lowerer.typeOf(expr.expression));
-                const inner = mapped?.kind === "promise" && mapped.inner.kind === "void" ? VOID : JSVAL;
-                const bridged = {
-                    kind: "jsBridgePromise",
-                    value,
-                    type: { kind: "promise", inner },
-                    loc,
-                };
-                return { kind: "awaitExpr", value: bridged, type: inner, loc };
-            }
             // A TYPED non-promise operand (`await 42`, an awaited record):
             // JS awaits non-thenables through exactly one microtask turn and
             // yields the value itself — evaluate the operand, hop, answer it.
@@ -1765,9 +1399,7 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         return lowerer.lowerBinary(expr);
     if (ts.isCallExpression(expr)) {
         // The tail of an optional chain whose `?.` sits deeper
-        // (`x?.trim().toLowerCase()`): the whole tail short-circuits with
-        // the guard, so it lowers as one chain (dyn/island receivers keep
-        // their own undefined-propagating reads — see isOptionalChainTail).
+        // (`x?.trim().toLowerCase()`): the whole tail short-circuits together.
         if (isOptionalChainTail(lowerer, expr))
             return lowerer.lowerOptionalChain(expr);
         return lowerer.lowerCall(expr);
@@ -1809,7 +1441,7 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
             return lowerer.lowerSuperAccessorRead(expr);
         }
         // Enum member reads (`E.A`) fold to their compile-time constants —
-        // claimed FIRST so no receiver-shaped path (records, islands, the
+        // claimed FIRST so no receiver-shaped path (records, the
         // identifier fence on the enum object) sees them. lower-enums.ts.
         {
             const en = lowerEnumAccess(lowerer, expr);
@@ -1868,7 +1500,7 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
                 loc,
             };
         }
-        if (!lowerer.dynamic && lowerer.stdlibGlobalMember(expr, "Object") === "freeze") {
+        if (lowerer.stdlibGlobalMember(expr, "Object") === "freeze") {
             const name = "%builtin.Object.freeze";
             if (!lowerer.liftedFns.some((fn) => fn.name === name))
                 lowerer.liftedFns.push({
@@ -1909,8 +1541,7 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         // in a native program. Declared globals retain their own lowering;
         // arbitrary global-object mutation remains fenced. Preserve a dyn
         // undefined value so stored probes compose with optional calls.
-        if (!lowerer.dynamic &&
-            stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr.expression) === "globalThis" &&
+        if (stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr.expression) === "globalThis" &&
             !lowerer.checker.getPropertyOfType(lowerer.typeOf(expr.expression), expr.name.text)) {
             return dynUndefinedExpr(loc);
         }
@@ -1936,63 +1567,11 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
         lowerer.fenceStaticResponseMember(expr, "read");
         lowerer.fenceStaticHeadersMember(expr, "read");
         lowerer.fenceStaticReadableStreamMember(expr, "read");
-        // Island receiver: o.x is an engine property read (getProp may throw
         // — reading off null/undefined — bridged catchably like everything
         // at the boundary). `o?.x` arrives here too, through the chain
         // lowering's re-dispatch (a questionDotToken past the gate above is
         // always chain-handled; the receiver reads back as the chain's
         // bound handle).
-        if (lowerer.isIslandExpr(expr.expression)) {
-            const receiver = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.expression);
-            // The checker said 'any' but the VALUE lives in the checked-dynamic tree (`this`
-            // in a plain JS function — dyn.this — or a checked-dynamic local
-            // behind an any-typed spelling): the property read is the checked-dynamic tree's
-            // own keyed read, dyn results and dyn chains exactly like every
-            // checked-dynamic member access (a nullish receiver throws V8's
-            // catchable TypeError, exactly Node). Never a jsOp over a dyn —
-            // the two dynamic worlds don't share a value representation.
-            if (receiver.type.kind === "dyn") {
-                return {
-                    kind: "dynKeyGet",
-                    key: { kind: "strLit", value: expr.name.text, type: STRING, loc },
-                    value: receiver,
-                    type: DYN,
-                    loc,
-                };
-            }
-            const read = {
-                kind: "jsOp",
-                op: "getProp",
-                name: expr.name.text,
-                args: [receiver],
-                type: JSVAL,
-                loc,
-            };
-            // A member the .d.ts DECLARES as a primitive exits eagerly to that
-            // static type (`f.mediaType` on a package handle IS a string):
-            // primitives copy by value across the boundary — no aliasing, no
-            // cost — and every static consumer (intrinsics, templates,
-            // comparisons) works on the result. Trust-but-verify: a lying
-            // declaration throws the catchable TypeError instead of smuggling
-            // a mistyped handle into string ops. A Uint8Array member exits the
-            // same way (`result.audio.uint8Array` — the generated-media
-            // payload) as a validated u8 COPY, the boundary's aliasing stance
-            // (divergences 44/45; engine Buffers pass — they ARE Uint8Arrays).
-            // Other composites stay handles (eager JSON copies would change
-            // aliasing), and chain-handled reads stay jsval (the chain's unit
-            // path is the engine's undefined — see lowerOptionalChain).
-            if (!expr.questionDotToken) {
-                const declared = lowerer.mapTypeOf(lowerer.typeOf(expr));
-                if (declared &&
-                    (declared.kind === "f64" ||
-                        declared.kind === "bool" ||
-                        declared.kind === "string" ||
-                        (declared.kind === "bytes" && declared.elem === "u8"))) {
-                    return { kind: "jsExit", value: read, type: declared, loc };
-                }
-            }
-            return read;
-        }
         // `m.index` on a for-of-over-matchAll binding reads the companion-
         // index array at this iteration's cursor — always a number: every
         // drained row matched, so the lib's `.index` is never undefined
@@ -2268,13 +1847,13 @@ function lowerExprInner(lowerer, expr) {
             isJsSourceFile(expr.getSourceFile())) {
             const canonical = stdlibGlobalNameOf(lowerer, expr);
             if (canonical !== null) {
-                if (!lowerer.dynamic && canonical === "globalThis")
+                if (canonical === "globalThis")
                     return lowerGlobalValue(lowerer, expr);
-                if (!lowerer.dynamic && canonical === "ArrayBuffer")
+                if (canonical === "ArrayBuffer")
                     return { kind: "libCall", fn: "arrayBuffer.constructor", args: [], type: DYN, loc };
-                if (!lowerer.dynamic && canonical === "fetch")
+                if (canonical === "fetch")
                     return { kind: "libCall", fn: "fetch.function", args: [], type: DYN, loc };
-                if (!lowerer.dynamic && Object.values(BYTES_ELEMENT_NAME).includes(canonical))
+                if (Object.values(BYTES_ELEMENT_NAME).includes(canonical))
                     return {
                         kind: "libCall",
                         fn: "bytes.constructor",
@@ -2929,7 +2508,7 @@ export function lowerTernary(lowerer, expr, expected) {
             (lowerer.typeOf(expr).flags & ts.TypeFlags.Any) !== 0) {
             const a = thenRaw.type;
             const b = elseRaw.type;
-            const staticArm = (t) => t.kind !== "dyn" && t.kind !== "caught" && t.kind !== "jsval" && t.kind !== "void";
+            const staticArm = (t) => t.kind !== "dyn" && t.kind !== "caught" && t.kind !== "void";
             if (staticArm(a) && staticArm(b)) {
                 if (typeEquals(a, b)) {
                     anyJoin = a;
@@ -3196,9 +2775,8 @@ export function maybeNarrow(lowerer, expr, node) {
     const narrowedTs = lowerer.typeOf(node);
     const narrowed = lowerer.mapTypeOf(narrowedTs);
     // `Array.isArray(u)` on a union with one readonly array/tuple arm: the
-    // lib predicate narrows to `any[]`, either directly or intersected
-    // with the original union. That checker type can map to the island's
-    // array-of-handles, nothing, or a synthetic intersection record — but
+    // lib predicate narrows to `any[]`, possibly intersected with another
+    // type. That mapping may be a checked value or a synthetic record, but
     // the tag test proved the union's one array-valued arm, so bridge to it
     // with the same trusted unionNarrow the mapped case below builds.
     if (lowerer.checkerAnyArrayType(narrowedTs)) {
@@ -3743,18 +3321,6 @@ function volatileEnvRead(e) {
     }
     return null;
 }
-/** `x == null` / `x != null` — JS's idiomatic null-OR-undefined test, the
- * ONE loose comparison with static semantics: `== null` matches exactly
- * null and undefined (0, "", and false do not). Requires a syntactic
- * null LITERAL on either side; the other operand's unit arms become a
- * runtime tag test — one `unionIsTag` when the union has a single unit
- * arm, a short-circuit pair over both tags otherwise (that shape re-emits
- * the operand, so only side-effect-free reads compose; anything else
- * keeps the fence). A unit-literal operand folds (null and undefined are
- * mutually loose-equal), and a non-nullable operand folds statically —
- * the same trust-the-checker bet as lowerUnitComparison. Null (fence)
- * when this isn't a null-literal comparison or the operand has no
- * lowering here (dyn/jsval/void). */
 function lowerLooseNullCompare(lowerer, expr, loc) {
     const negated = expr.operatorToken.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ExclamationEqualsToken;
     const unwrap = (e) => ts.isParenthesizedExpression(e) ? unwrap(e.expression) : e;
@@ -3819,7 +3385,7 @@ function lowerLooseNullCompare(lowerer, expr, loc) {
             loc,
         };
     }
-    if (other.type.kind === "jsval" || other.type.kind === "void") {
+    if (other.type.kind === "void") {
         return null; // no static tag to test — keep the fence
     }
     // The env-volatility escape (see lowerUnitComparison): a narrowed
@@ -3976,10 +3542,8 @@ function isMemberReceiver(node) {
 function lowerNullishPair(lowerer, expr, loc, left) {
     if (left.type.kind === "dyn") {
         // `a ?? b` on a CHECKED-DYNAMIC left: the deciding test is the
-        // runtime kind (scr_dyn_is_nullish — UNDEF/NULL take the default;
-        // a wrapped island value routes to the engine's test, defensively:
-        // the wrap constructor scalar-normalizes engine null/undefined
-        // away). Both sides live in the checked-dynamic tree — the right converts through
+        // runtime kind (scr_dyn_is_nullish — UNDEF/NULL take the default).
+        // Both sides live in the checked-dynamic tree — the right converts through
         // the usual boundary and evaluates lazily in its branch; a default
         // with no dyn representation keeps the fence.
         const right = lowerer.coerceToExpected(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), DYN);
@@ -3988,13 +3552,6 @@ function lowerNullishPair(lowerer, expr, loc, left) {
         }
         return { kind: "nullish", left, right, type: DYN, loc };
     }
-    if (left.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        // `a ?? b` on an ISLAND value: the engine's own nullish test — the
-        // left evaluates once, the right runs lazily in its branch and
-        // marshals in (the emitter's jsval nullish arm).
-        const right = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), expr.right);
-        return { kind: "nullish", left, right, type: JSVAL, loc };
-    }
     if (left.type.kind !== "union")
         return left;
     const def = lowerer.unions.get(left.type.unionId);
@@ -4438,10 +3995,6 @@ export function ensureBool(lowerer, e, node) {
         // tag (plus the scalar payload for number/string).
         return { kind: "dynTest", test: "truthy", value: e, type: BOOL, loc: e.loc };
     }
-    if (e.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        // ToBoolean of an island value — the engine answers (never throws).
-        return { kind: "jsOp", op: "truthy", args: [e], type: BOOL, loc: e.loc };
-    }
     if (e.type.kind === "union") {
         lowerer.requireTruthyUnion(e.type.unionId, node);
         return { kind: "toBool", operand: e, type: BOOL, loc: e.loc };
@@ -4459,23 +4012,15 @@ export function ensureBool(lowerer, e, node) {
     }
     lowerer.badType(node, lowerer.typeOf(node));
 }
-/** Truthiness needs a ToBoolean per arm: dyn/caught arms have none (a
- * dynamic ToBoolean over the checked-dynamic tree / the snapshot box) — fence those
- * unions; every other arm kind is answerable (units false, scalars and
- * strings by value, refs true, jsval by the engine). */
 export function requireTruthyUnion(lowerer, unionId, node) {
     const def = lowerer.unions.get(unionId);
     if (def && def.arms.every((a) => a.kind !== "dyn" && a.kind !== "caught"))
         return;
     lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", node, `union-typed conditions with 'unknown' arms (${NARROW_FIRST})`);
 }
-/** Strict equality needs a per-arm comparison: units, scalars, strings,
- * and ref kinds (pointer identity) all have one; dyn/caught arms have no
- * static equality and jsval arms would need the engine's `===` — those
- * unions keep the narrow-first fence. */
 export function eqComparableUnion(lowerer, unionId) {
     const def = lowerer.unions.get(unionId);
-    return (!!def && def.arms.every((a) => a.kind !== "dyn" && a.kind !== "caught" && a.kind !== "jsval"));
+    return !!def && def.arms.every((a) => a.kind !== "dyn" && a.kind !== "caught");
 }
 /** Property access on a string or array receiver: `.length` lowers to the
  * matching intrinsic; a bare method reference (`const f = s.slice` — a
@@ -4883,9 +4428,7 @@ export function lowerIntrinsicProperty(lowerer, expr) {
         return null;
     }
     if (kind === "f64") {
-        // The only ambient members on numbers are island-backed methods; a
-        // bare reference has no value form regardless of --dynamic.
-        if (own(ISLAND_SURFACE.number, name) !== undefined) {
+        if (own(STDLIB_SURFACE.number, name) !== undefined) {
             lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `number methods as values (call '${name}' directly)`);
         }
         return null;
@@ -4929,22 +4472,7 @@ export function lowerIntrinsicProperty(lowerer, expr) {
                     ? lowerer.checkedNarrowCall(helper, receiver, present, locOf(expr.expression))
                     : lowerer.maybeNarrow(receiver, expr.expression);
             }
-            // An island handle behind a typed-array .d.ts surface: the engine
             // property read, exiting at the declared number type (the array
-            // .length rule). Chain-handled reads stay jsval.
-            if (receiver.type.kind === "jsval") {
-                const read = {
-                    kind: "jsOp",
-                    op: "getProp",
-                    name,
-                    args: [receiver],
-                    type: JSVAL,
-                    loc,
-                };
-                if (expr.questionDotToken)
-                    return read;
-                return { kind: "jsExit", value: read, type: F64, loc };
-            }
             return { kind: "bytesIntrinsic", method: name, receiver, args: [], type: F64, loc };
         }
         if (name === "byteOffset") {
@@ -5023,24 +4551,6 @@ export function lowerIntrinsicProperty(lowerer, expr) {
                 ? lowerer.checkedNarrowCall(helper, receiver, present, locOf(expr.expression))
                 : lowerer.maybeNarrow(receiver, expr.expression);
         }
-        // An island handle behind an array-typed .d.ts surface
-        // (`parts().length` on a declared `string[]` return — arrays never
-        // exit eagerly, so the value stays jsval): an engine property read,
-        // exiting at the declared number type. Chain-handled reads stay
-        // jsval (the island chain's body must be a handle).
-        if (receiver.type.kind === "jsval") {
-            const read = {
-                kind: "jsOp",
-                op: "getProp",
-                name: "length",
-                args: [receiver],
-                type: JSVAL,
-                loc: locOf(expr),
-            };
-            if (expr.questionDotToken)
-                return read;
-            return { kind: "jsExit", value: read, type: F64, loc: locOf(expr) };
-        }
         // A CHECKED-DYNAMIC value behind an array-typed checker spelling
         // (`Object.keys(u).length` — the dyn walk answers a dyn array while
         // tsc spells string[]): the runtime-world dispatch — a dyn keyed
@@ -5066,7 +4576,7 @@ export function lowerIntrinsicProperty(lowerer, expr) {
     if (kind === "string"
         ? own(STR_METHODS, name) !== undefined ||
             STRING_INDEX_METHODS.has(name) ||
-            own(ISLAND_SURFACE.string, name) !== undefined
+            own(STDLIB_SURFACE.string, name) !== undefined
         : ARRAY_METHODS.has(name)) {
         lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `${kind} methods as values (call '${name}' directly)`);
     }
@@ -5171,11 +4681,8 @@ export function lowerArrayLiteral(lowerer, expr, expected) {
                 !(ts.isIdentifier(el) && el.text === "undefined"));
             const ownUnhelpful = mapped === null ||
                 mapped.kind === "dyn" ||
-                // The checker echoing the context union back as the literal's
-                // own type decides nothing either — nor does an island ('any')
-                // residue under a STATIC union slot.
+                // The checker may echo the context union rather than infer this literal.
                 mapped.kind === "union" ||
-                mapped.kind === "jsval" ||
                 (mapped.kind === "array" && nonUnitElems && lowerer.unitOnlyElem(mapped.elem));
             if (ownUnhelpful) {
                 const def = lowerer.unions.get(ctxUnion.unionId);
@@ -5223,11 +4730,9 @@ export function lowerArrayLiteral(lowerer, expr, expected) {
             tryLowerExpression(lowerer, element.expression)?.type.kind === "dyn"))
         mapped = DYN;
     // An EMPTY literal under a CONST ASSERTION whose type queries panicked
-    // (tsgo's readonly-[] TupleType conversion — the facade answers `any`,
-    // which maps to nothing statically and to an island value under
-    // --dynamic): the value is provably the empty tuple; ride the
-    // unit-element array, mapType's own `[] as const` rule.
-    if ((mapped === null || mapped.kind === "jsval") &&
+    // (tsgo's readonly-[] TupleType conversion) uses a unit-element array,
+    // mapType's own `[] as const` rule.
+    if (mapped === null &&
         expr.elements.length === 0 &&
         (tsType.flags & ts.TypeFlags.Any) !== 0 &&
         underConstAssertion(expr)) {
@@ -5257,22 +4762,7 @@ export function lowerArrayLiteral(lowerer, expr, expected) {
                 // tsc padded an UNDER-LENGTH literal against an optional-element
                 // tuple context (`options || []` with `options?: [string?,
                 // number?]` — the instantiated type spells every position, the
-                // literal spells fewer): no fixed shape holds it, but the
-                // engine's real arrays do — under --dynamic the literal builds
-                // island-native with its ACTUAL elements, length exact. Static
-                // builds keep the type fence (badType's dynamic probe tells the
-                // --dynamic story).
-                if (lowerer.dynamic &&
-                    expr.elements.length < shape.fields.length &&
-                    expr.elements.every((el) => !ts.isOmittedExpression(el))) {
-                    return {
-                        kind: "jsOp",
-                        op: "arrLit",
-                        args: expr.elements.map((el) => lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(el), el)),
-                        type: JSVAL,
-                        loc,
-                    };
-                }
+                // literal spells fewer): no fixed shape holds it.
                 lowerer.badType(expr, tsType);
             }
             const byName = new Map(shape.fields.map((f) => [f.name, f.type]));
@@ -5375,10 +4865,9 @@ export function lowerArrayLiteral(lowerer, expr, expected) {
             while (ts.isParenthesizedExpression(srcNode))
                 srcNode = srcNode.expression;
             lowerer.fenceStaticHeadersIteration(el.expression);
-            let src = lowerer.lowerDynamicHeadersSpread(el.expression, type) ??
-                (ts.isConditionalExpression(srcNode)
-                    ? lowerTernary(lowerer, srcNode, type)
-                    : lowerer.lowerExpr(el.expression));
+            let src = ts.isConditionalExpression(srcNode)
+                ? lowerTernary(lowerer, srcNode, type)
+                : lowerer.lowerExpr(el.expression);
             src = lowerCollectionSpread(lowerer, src, el.expression) ?? src;
             // `[...new SymbolIterator]`: a CLASS ITERABLE drains through its
             // own protocol into a fresh element array (classIteratorDrainCall
@@ -5933,33 +5422,6 @@ export function lowerElementAccess(lowerer, expr) {
             return lowerer.maybeNarrow({ kind: "dynKeyGet", value: receiver, key, type: DYN, loc: locOf(expr) }, expr);
         }
     }
-    if (receiverIr?.kind === "jsval") {
-        // Dispatch follows the RUNTIME world (383(d)): a checker-'any'
-        // receiver whose value LOWERED checked-dynamic (`bag.list[0]` where
-        // bag.list is a routed keyed read off a wrapped island value) takes
-        // the dyn keyed read below — the routed JSVAL arm reads the real
-        // engine element; a jsval-lowered receiver keeps the island read.
-        const recv = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.expression);
-        if (recv.type.kind !== "dyn")
-            return islandElementRead(lowerer, expr, recv);
-        const rawKey = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.argumentExpression);
-        const key = rawKey.type.kind === "string"
-            ? rawKey
-            : rawKey.type.kind === "f64"
-                ? { kind: "toString", operand: rawKey, type: STRING, loc: rawKey.loc }
-                : null;
-        if (key) {
-            const opt = hasOptionalChainGuard(expr.expression);
-            return lowerer.maybeNarrow({
-                kind: "dynKeyGet",
-                key,
-                ...(opt ? { optional: true } : {}),
-                value: recv,
-                type: DYN,
-                loc: locOf(expr),
-            }, expr);
-        }
-    }
     // Typed-array element read `b[i]` — like arrayGet with a scalar
     // result; any invalid index traps (the array discipline; JS would
     // read undefined — divergence 4's policy).
@@ -5976,12 +5438,6 @@ export function lowerElementAccess(lowerer, expr) {
                 ? lowerer.checkedNarrowCall(helper, recv, present, locOf(expr.expression))
                 : lowerer.maybeNarrow(recv, expr.expression);
         }
-        // A typed-array .d.ts surface whose VALUE is an island handle
-        // (`data()[0]` on a declared Uint8Array return — call results only
-        // exit primitives eagerly): the engine element read, exiting at the
-        // declared number type.
-        if (recv.type.kind === "jsval")
-            return islandElementRead(lowerer, expr, recv);
         const index = lowerOptionalNumber(lowerer, lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.argumentExpression), locOf(expr.argumentExpression), expr.argumentExpression);
         if (isJsSourceFile(expr.getSourceFile()) && recv.type.kind === "bytes") {
             return {
@@ -6033,14 +5489,6 @@ export function lowerElementAccess(lowerer, expr) {
         const shape = lowerer.shapes.get(receiverIr.shapeId);
         if (shape?.tuple) {
             let obj = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.expression);
-            // A tuple-typed .d.ts surface whose VALUE is an island handle
-            // (`pair()[0]` on a declared `[number, string]` return — the
-            // anonymous tuple type has no npm symbol, so the checker maps it
-            // structurally while the call result stays an engine array): the
-            // read rides engine ops, exiting at the declared per-index type
-            // like the array path.
-            if (obj.type.kind === "jsval")
-                return islandElementRead(lowerer, expr, obj);
             if (obj.type.kind === "dyn") {
                 // Object.entries over a checked value stores each pair in the
                 // dynamic tree even when the checker names a tuple type.
@@ -6091,14 +5539,6 @@ export function lowerElementAccess(lowerer, expr) {
                 : lowerer.maybeNarrow(get, expr);
         }
         if (shape && !shape.tuple) {
-            // A record-typed .d.ts surface whose VALUE is an island handle
-            // (`headers()["x-id"]` on a declared `Record<string, string>`
-            // return — the stdlib alias maps structurally while the call
-            // result stays an engine object): the read rides engine ops with
-            // the declared-value exit, never a recordKeyGet over a jsval.
-            const obj = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.expression);
-            if (obj.type.kind === "jsval")
-                return islandElementRead(lowerer, expr, obj);
             return lowerer.lowerRecordKeyRead(expr, receiverIr.shapeId, shape);
         }
     }
@@ -6325,14 +5765,6 @@ export function lowerElementAccess(lowerer, expr) {
             ? lowerer.checkedNarrowCall(helper, arr, present, locOf(expr.expression))
             : lowerer.maybeNarrow(arr, expr.expression);
     }
-    // The checker sees an array but the VALUE is an island handle (an
-    // array-typed .d.ts surface: `parts()[0]` on a declared `string[]`
-    // return, `issue.path[0]` on a declared member — arrays never exit
-    // eagerly, so the call/member read stays jsval): the read rides
-    // engine ops with the declared-element exit, never a static arrayGet
-    // over a jsval (the validator ICE).
-    if (arr.type.kind === "jsval")
-        return islandElementRead(lowerer, expr, arr);
     // The checker sees an array but the VALUE lowered checked-dynamic (a
     // jsdoc-typed default export from a .js module — signature 14): the
     // read rides the dynCheck boundary when the array shape is one the checked-dynamic tree
@@ -6410,33 +5842,6 @@ export function lowerElementAccess(lowerer, expr) {
     // narrows literal-index element accesses).
     return lowerer.maybeNarrow({ kind: "arrayGet", arr, index, type: elemT, loc: locOf(expr) }, expr);
 }
-/** `o[k]` where the RECEIVER is an island value — a jsval-mapped checker
- * type, or an array/tuple-typed .d.ts surface whose lowered value is a
- * handle. The key marshals in (any JS key kind — the engine does its
- * own ToPropertyKey) and the result stays island, EXCEPT when the
- * checker declares the element a primitive (`parts()[0]` on a declared
- * `string[]`): those exit eagerly to the static type, exactly the
- * island property-read rule (trust-but-verify — a lying declaration
- * throws the catchable TypeError; tsc puts the `| undefined` of a
- * short-circuiting chain on the OUTERMOST expression, so chain tails
- * never map primitive here). Chain-handled reads (`v?.[0]`) stay jsval
- * — the chain's unit path is the engine's undefined. */
-function islandElementRead(lowerer, expr, obj) {
-    const loc = locOf(expr);
-    const key = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.argumentExpression), expr.argumentExpression);
-    const read = { kind: "jsOp", op: "getIdx", args: [obj, key], type: JSVAL, loc };
-    if (!expr.questionDotToken) {
-        const declared = lowerer.mapTypeOf(lowerer.typeOf(expr));
-        if (declared &&
-            (declared.kind === "f64" ||
-                declared.kind === "bool" ||
-                declared.kind === "string" ||
-                (declared.kind === "bytes" && declared.elem === "u8"))) {
-            return { kind: "jsExit", value: read, type: declared, loc };
-        }
-    }
-    return read;
-}
 /** `r[k]` over a (non-tuple) record shape. A LITERAL key naming a declared
  * field is the bracket spelling of field access (the ONLY spelling tsc
  * permits for signature-declared fields under
@@ -7190,39 +6595,6 @@ export function lowerElementWrite(lowerer, expr) {
         if (receiver?.type.kind === "array")
             receiverIr = receiver.type;
     }
-    if (receiverIr?.kind === "jsval") {
-        const obj = lowerer.lowerExpr(target.expression);
-        // Dispatch follows the RUNTIME world (383(d)): a checker-'any'
-        // receiver whose value LOWERED checked-dynamic takes the dyn keyed
-        // write — the routed JSVAL arm lands it on the real engine object.
-        if (obj.type.kind === "dyn") {
-            const loc = locOf(expr);
-            const rawKey = lowerer.lowerExpr(target.argumentExpression);
-            const key = rawKey.type.kind === "f64" || rawKey.type.kind === "bool" || rawKey.type.kind === "dyn"
-                ? { kind: "toString", operand: rawKey, type: STRING, loc: rawKey.loc }
-                : rawKey;
-            if (key.type.kind !== "string") {
-                lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", target.argumentExpression, `'${lowerer.fmt(key.type)}'-typed keys in keyed writes through 'unknown' values`);
-            }
-            const value = lowerer.coerceToExpected(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), DYN);
-            if (value.type.kind !== "dyn") {
-                lowerer.unsupported("SC1100", expr.right, `assigning '${lowerer.fmt(value.type)}' values through 'unknown' receivers`);
-            }
-            return {
-                kind: "exprStmt",
-                expr: { kind: "libCall", fn: "dyn.keySet", args: [obj, key, value], type: VOID, loc },
-                loc,
-            };
-        }
-        const key = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(target.argumentExpression), target.argumentExpression);
-        const value = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), expr.right);
-        const loc = locOf(expr);
-        return {
-            kind: "exprStmt",
-            expr: { kind: "jsOp", op: "setIdx", args: [obj, key, value], type: VOID, loc },
-            loc,
-        };
-    }
     // A checked-dynamic receiver TYPE (`unknown[]` and the collapsed
     // `(string | object)[]` map to DYN wholesale now): the dyn keyed
     // write — dyn.keySet. Number keys canonicalize through the JS-exact
@@ -7276,18 +6648,6 @@ export function lowerElementWrite(lowerer, expr) {
     // the runtime coerces JS-exactly; invalid indices are ignored.
     if (receiverIr?.kind === "bytes") {
         const recv = lowerer.lowerExpr(target.expression);
-        // The write twin: a typed-array .d.ts surface whose VALUE is a
-        // handle takes the engine keyed write.
-        if (recv.type.kind === "jsval") {
-            const key = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(target.argumentExpression), target.argumentExpression);
-            const value = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), expr.right);
-            const loc = locOf(expr);
-            return {
-                kind: "exprStmt",
-                expr: { kind: "jsOp", op: "setIdx", args: [recv, key, value], type: VOID, loc },
-                loc,
-            };
-        }
         const index = lowerer.lowerExpr(target.argumentExpression);
         if (index.type.kind === "dyn" && recv.type.kind === "bytes") {
             return {
@@ -7306,24 +6666,11 @@ export function lowerElementWrite(lowerer, expr) {
     // — literal indices only, like the read.
     if (receiverIr?.kind === "record") {
         const shape = lowerer.shapes.get(receiverIr.shapeId);
-        // A record/tuple-typed .d.ts surface whose VALUE is an island
-        // handle: the engine keyed write (the read dispatch's twin), never
-        // a recordSet/recordKeySet over a jsval.
         if (shape) {
             const obj = lowerer.lowerExpr(target.expression);
             if (hasClassPayload(lowerer, obj.type)) {
                 lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", target, "computed property writes through structural views of class instances (use a declared literal key)");
             }
-            if (obj.type.kind === "jsval") {
-                const key = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(target.argumentExpression), target.argumentExpression);
-                const value = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), expr.right);
-                const loc = locOf(expr);
-                return {
-                    kind: "exprStmt",
-                    expr: { kind: "jsOp", op: "setIdx", args: [obj, key, value], type: VOID, loc },
-                    loc,
-                };
-            }
             // A record-mapped CHECKER type over a VALUE living in the checked-dynamic tree (a
             // JS file-scope object-literal global): the checked-dynamic keyed
             // write — dyn.keySet (later writes win, insertion order; Node's
@@ -7488,9 +6835,8 @@ export function lowerElementWrite(lowerer, expr) {
     // arm above — later writes win in insertion order, number keys
     // canonicalize through the JS-exact formatter (ToPropertyKey's string
     // side), index keys on dyn arrays set/extend elements, and non-object
-    // receivers throw Node's TypeErrors at runtime. An UNMAPPED checker
-    // type (static `any` — mapTypeOf answers null without --dynamic)
-    // probes the receiver's own lowered world: a dyn value takes the same
+    // receivers throw Node's TypeErrors at runtime. An unmapped checker type
+    // probes the receiver's lowered representation: a dyn value takes the same
     // write, anything else falls through to the fences.
     if (receiverIr?.kind === "dyn" || receiverIr?.kind === "object" || receiverIr === null) {
         const obj = receiverIr !== null
@@ -7530,19 +6876,6 @@ export function lowerElementWrite(lowerer, expr) {
         lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", target, "assignment to non-array elements");
     }
     let arr = lowerer.lowerExpr(target.expression);
-    // The write twin of the island element read: an array-typed .d.ts
-    // surface whose VALUE is a handle takes the engine keyed write, never
-    // a static arraySet over a jsval.
-    if (arr.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        const key = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(target.argumentExpression), target.argumentExpression);
-        const value = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right), expr.right);
-        const loc = locOf(expr);
-        return {
-            kind: "exprStmt",
-            expr: { kind: "jsOp", op: "setIdx", args: [arr, key, value], type: VOID, loc },
-            loc,
-        };
-    }
     if (arr.type.kind === "union" &&
         lowerer.armTag(arr.type.unionId, UNDEFINED_T) >= 0 &&
         receiverIr.kind === "array") {
@@ -7630,10 +6963,6 @@ export function ensureString(lowerer, e, node) {
         const boxed = { kind: "dynFrom", value: e, type: DYN, loc: e.loc };
         return { kind: "toString", operand: boxed, type: STRING, loc: e.loc };
     }
-    if (e.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        // String(v) in the engine — JS-exact (and Node-exact in templates).
-        return { kind: "jsOp", op: "toStr", args: [e], type: STRING, loc: e.loc };
-    }
     if (e.type.kind === "object") {
         // String(err) / `${err}` uses the same dispatch as err.toString().
         for (let c = lowerer.classes.get(e.type.className) ?? null; c; c = c.base) {
@@ -7875,12 +7204,8 @@ export function lowerAsExpression(lowerer, expr) {
     const use = runtimeOptionalUseOf(expr);
     if (inner.type.kind === "union" && runtimeOptionalAssertionErases(lowerer, expr, inner, use))
         return inner;
-    if (inner.type.kind !== "dyn" && inner.type.kind !== "jsval") {
-        // A STATIC value cast `as any` is the explicit island entrance.
+    if (inner.type.kind !== "dyn") {
         const targetTs0 = lowerer.checker.getTypeFromTypeNode(expr.type);
-        if (targetTs0.flags & ts.TypeFlags.Any && lowerer.dynamic) {
-            return lowerer.jsvalIn(inner, expr.expression);
-        }
         const target = lowerer.mapTypeOf(targetTs0);
         if (target?.kind === "object") {
             const asserted = checkedClassAssertion(lowerer, inner, target, locOf(expr));
@@ -7958,25 +7283,6 @@ export function lowerAsExpression(lowerer, expr) {
         }
         return inner; // erasure, unchanged
     }
-    if (inner.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        // The island exit. `as any` on an island value is erasure; a static
-        // target compiles to a VALIDATED extraction (strict primitives; the
-        // JSON round-trip + dynCheck walker for composites) that throws a
-        // catchable TypeError on mismatch — same trust-but-verify rule as
-        // the dyn boundary. Targets with no extraction are rejected.
-        const targetTs = lowerer.checker.getTypeFromTypeNode(expr.type);
-        if (targetTs.flags & ts.TypeFlags.Any)
-            return inner;
-        const target = lowerer.mapTypeOf(targetTs);
-        if (!target)
-            lowerer.badType(expr.type, targetTs);
-        if (!lowerer.boundarySafe(target)) {
-            lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `a checked cast of 'any' to '${lowerer.fmt(target)}' ` +
-                `(an 'any' value can only be validated against JSON-representable types: ` +
-                `number, string, boolean, records, arrays, and unions of those)`);
-        }
-        return { kind: "jsExit", value: inner, type: target, loc: locOf(expr) };
-    }
     const targetTs = lowerer.checker.getTypeFromTypeNode(expr.type);
     const target = lowerer.mapTypeOf(targetTs) ?? dynFallbackType(lowerer, expr.type, targetTs);
     if (!target)
@@ -8045,9 +7351,6 @@ export function lowerPrefixUnary(lowerer, expr) {
     switch (expr.operator) {
         case ts.SyntaxKind.MinusToken: {
             const raw = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.operand);
-            if (raw.type.kind === "jsval") {
-                return { kind: "jsOp", op: "neg", args: [raw], type: JSVAL, loc };
-            }
             if (raw.type.kind === "bigint") {
                 return { kind: "libCall", fn: "bigint.neg", args: [raw], type: BIGINT_T, loc };
             }
@@ -8069,9 +7372,6 @@ export function lowerPrefixUnary(lowerer, expr) {
             // Unary + is ToNumber; on an already-number operand it's identity,
             // and a STRING operand runs the runtime's ECMA-exact StringToNumber
             // (num.fromString — Number(aString)'s lowering, scr_string.c).
-            if (raw.type.kind === "jsval") {
-                return { kind: "jsOp", op: "plus", args: [raw], type: JSVAL, loc };
-            }
             if (raw.type.kind === "string") {
                 return { kind: "libCall", fn: "num.fromString", args: [raw], type: F64, loc };
             }
@@ -8363,38 +7663,6 @@ function seqExprSafeStmt(s) {
             return false;
     }
 }
-/** Run one supported `any` binary operation in the island. Checked-dynamic
- * operands marshal in only after lowerBinary's identity-preserving native
- * cases have had their chance (notably dyn strict equality). */
-function lowerAnyBinaryInIsland(lowerer, expr, left, right, loc) {
-    const op = expr.operatorToken.kind;
-    const JS_BIN = {
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.PlusToken]: "add",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.MinusToken]: "sub",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.AsteriskToken]: "mul",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.SlashToken]: "div",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.PercentToken]: "mod",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.AsteriskAsteriskToken]: "pow",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.LessThanToken]: "lt",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.LessThanEqualsToken]: "le",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.GreaterThanToken]: "gt",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.GreaterThanEqualsToken]: "ge",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.EqualsEqualsEqualsToken]: "eq",
-        [ts.SyntaxKind.ExclamationEqualsEqualsToken]: "neq",
-    };
-    const jop = JS_BIN[op];
-    if (jop === undefined) {
-        lowerer.unsupported("SC1090", expr, `operator '${ts.tokenToString(op) ?? ts.syntaxKindName(op)}' on 'any' values`);
-    }
-    const type = jsOpResultKind(jop) === "bool" ? BOOL : JSVAL;
-    return {
-        kind: "jsOp",
-        op: jop,
-        args: [lowerer.jsvalIn(left, expr.left), lowerer.jsvalIn(right, expr.right)],
-        type,
-        loc,
-    };
-}
 export function lowerCompoundValueToTarget(lowerer, expr, compound, target) {
     const loc = locOf(expr);
     const read = {
@@ -8406,27 +7674,6 @@ export function lowerCompoundValueToTarget(lowerer, expr, compound, target) {
     const rhs = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right);
     const numericRead = lowerOptionalNumber(lowerer, read, loc);
     const numericRhs = lowerOptionalNumber(lowerer, rhs, loc);
-    if (target.type.kind === "jsval" || rhs.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        const JS_COMPOUND = {
-            "+": "add",
-            "-": "sub",
-            "*": "mul",
-            "/": "div",
-            "%": "mod",
-            "**": "pow",
-        };
-        const jop = JS_COMPOUND[compound];
-        if (jop === undefined)
-            lowerer.unsupported("SC1043", expr);
-        const wrapped = {
-            kind: "jsOp",
-            op: jop,
-            args: [lowerer.jsvalIn(read, expr.left), lowerer.jsvalIn(rhs, expr.right)],
-            type: JSVAL,
-            loc,
-        };
-        return lowerer.coerceInto(expr, wrapped, target.type);
-    }
     if (compound === "+" &&
         (target.type.kind === "string" ||
             (target.type.kind === "union" &&
@@ -8704,49 +7951,6 @@ export function lowerBinary(lowerer, expr) {
                     };
                 }
             }
-            // `h.k = v` on an ISLAND receiver in VALUE position: the engine
-            // property write (setProp throws the engine's TypeErrors on
-            // nullish receivers, bridged catchably), the RHS value threaded
-            // through as the expression's value.
-            if (ts.isPropertyAccessExpression(expr.left) &&
-                !expr.left.questionDotToken &&
-                lowerer.isIslandExpr(expr.left.expression)) {
-                const recv = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.left.expression);
-                const recvTmp = lowerer.declareHiddenLocal("%setRecv", recv.type);
-                const rhsVal = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right);
-                const valTmp = lowerer.declareHiddenLocal("%setVal", rhsVal.type);
-                const valRef = () => ({
-                    kind: "varRef",
-                    localId: valTmp.id,
-                    type: rhsVal.type,
-                    loc,
-                });
-                return {
-                    kind: "seqExpr",
-                    stmts: [
-                        { kind: "varDecl", localId: recvTmp.id, init: recv, loc },
-                        { kind: "varDecl", localId: valTmp.id, init: rhsVal, loc },
-                        {
-                            kind: "exprStmt",
-                            expr: {
-                                kind: "jsOp",
-                                op: "setProp",
-                                name: expr.left.name.text,
-                                args: [
-                                    { kind: "varRef", localId: recvTmp.id, type: recv.type, loc },
-                                    lowerer.jsvalIn(valRef(), expr.right),
-                                ],
-                                type: VOID,
-                                loc,
-                            },
-                            loc,
-                        },
-                    ],
-                    result: valRef(),
-                    type: rhsVal.type,
-                    loc,
-                };
-            }
             // `h.k = v` on a CHECKED-DYNAMIC receiver in VALUE position
             // (`var _ = module.exports = foo`): receiver first, then RHS
             // (JS's reference-before-value order), the keyed write, and the
@@ -9062,34 +8266,20 @@ export function lowerBinary(lowerer, expr) {
                 }
             }
         }
-        // `any`-origin operands (tsc rejects these operator forms on real
-        // `unknown`, so in a checker-clean TS program only `any` reaches
-        // here): JS's full coercion semantics (ToPrimitive, NaN, string +)
-        // live in the engine — the dynamic-family fence, so the island
-        // retry lifts the site. Genuine unknown keeps the SC1100 story.
+        // Unsupported `any`-origin operations get their specific diagnostic;
+        // unknown retains the narrowing diagnostic below.
         if ((left.type.kind === "dyn" && lowerer.anyOrigin(expr.left)) ||
             (right.type.kind === "dyn" && lowerer.anyOrigin(expr.right))) {
             // `JSON.parse` and other checked-dynamic producers deliberately
             // remain dyn when assigned to an `any` local: eagerly converting
             // the binding would deep-copy its data and sever aliases. At an
-            // operator the dynamic build can cross only the operands and let
-            // the engine apply JS's exact coercion semantics. Static builds
-            // retain the SC2011 promise that --dynamic lifts this site.
-            if (lowerer.dynamic)
-                return lowerAnyBinaryInIsland(lowerer, expr, left, right, loc);
+            // unsupported operator, require an explicit represented type.
             lowerer.anyOpFence(`the '${ts.tokenToString(op) ?? ts.syntaxKindName(op)}' operator`, expr);
         }
         // tsc allows ===/!== on unknown (arithmetic/comparisons it rejects
         // itself); a dynamic equality would need a dyn walk — validate first.
         lowerer.unsupported("SC1100", expr, "operators on 'unknown' values");
     }
-    // Operators over 'any' execute in the island with JS-exact semantics
-    // (ToPrimitive, NaN, string +): both operands marshal in, the engine
-    // computes. Comparisons come back as static bools; arithmetic stays
-    // an island value ('1 as any + "x"' is a string over there).
-    if (left.type.kind === "jsval" || right.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        return lowerAnyBinaryInIsland(lowerer, expr, left, right, loc);
-    }
     if (left.type.kind === "bigint" && right.type.kind === "bigint") {
         const binary = {
             [ts.SyntaxKind.PlusToken]: "bigint.add",
@@ -9787,16 +8977,6 @@ function lowerLogicalPair(lowerer, expr, left) {
             loc,
         };
     }
-    if (left.type.kind === "jsval" || right.type.kind === "jsval") {
-        return {
-            kind: "logical",
-            op: op === ts.SyntaxKind.AmpersandAmpersandToken ? "&&" : "||",
-            left: lowerer.jsvalIn(left, expr.left),
-            right: lowerer.jsvalIn(right, expr.right),
-            type: JSVAL,
-            loc,
-        };
-    }
     if (isJsSourceFile(expr.getSourceFile()) &&
         op === ts.SyntaxKind.AmpersandAmpersandToken &&
         left.type.kind === "union" &&
@@ -9847,10 +9027,7 @@ function lowerLogicalPair(lowerer, expr, left) {
             left.type.kind === "union") {
             const leftArms = lowerer.unions.get(left.type.unionId)?.arms;
             const rightArms = right.type.kind === "union" ? lowerer.unions.get(right.type.unionId)?.arms : [right.type];
-            const rightIsStatic = rightArms?.every((arm) => arm.kind !== "dyn" &&
-                arm.kind !== "caught" &&
-                arm.kind !== "jsval" &&
-                arm.kind !== "void") ?? false;
+            const rightIsStatic = rightArms?.every((arm) => arm.kind !== "dyn" && arm.kind !== "caught" && arm.kind !== "void") ?? false;
             if (leftArms &&
                 rightArms &&
                 rightIsStatic &&
@@ -10187,12 +9364,6 @@ export function lowerCaughtTypeofTest(lowerer, expr, loc) {
     }
     return null;
 }
-/** The static `typeof` answer for a union ARM's IR type, or null when the
- * arm has no fixed answer. Unit arms are known (`typeof undefined` is
- * "undefined", `typeof null` is "object" — JS's oldest wart, preserved
- * exactly); every ref kind is a JS object ("object"), func arms would be
- * "function" (unions never carry them — defensive), and the jsval/dyn/
- * caught/void/union kinds cannot appear as arms. */
 function typeofAnswer(arm) {
     switch (arm.kind) {
         case "f64":
@@ -10757,22 +9928,7 @@ export function lowerInstanceOf(lowerer, expr, loc) {
     const sockTest = lowerSocketInstanceOf(lowerer, expr, loc);
     if (sockTest !== null)
         return sockTest;
-    // An ISLAND class as the RHS (`v instanceof Boom` on a package-
-    // exported class — the safeParse-style error narrowing): the spec's
-    // InstanceofOperator runs in the engine (Symbol.hasInstance included;
-    // a non-object RHS throws the engine's own TypeError, catchably).
-    // The LHS marshals in — island handles pass through, static
-    // primitives answer false exactly like the spec's non-object rule,
-    // and unmarshalable statics (class instances, catch bindings — the
-    // payload is a name/message snapshot, never the engine object) keep
-    // jsvalIn's honest fences.
-    if (lowerer.isIslandExpr(expr.right) && !lowerer.caughtLocalOf(expr.left)) {
-        const left = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.left), expr.left);
-        const right = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.right);
-        return { kind: "jsOp", op: "instanceOf", args: [left, right], type: BOOL, loc };
-    }
-    if (!lowerer.dynamic &&
-        (lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "Set") || lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "Map"))) {
+    if (lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "Set") || lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "Map")) {
         const collection = lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "Map") ? "map" : "set";
         const value = lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.left);
         if (value.type.kind === "union") {
@@ -10833,18 +9989,6 @@ export function lowerInstanceOf(lowerer, expr, loc) {
     }
     if (lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "WeakMap") ||
         lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "WeakSet")) {
-        if (lowerer.dynamic) {
-            const value = lowerer.jsvalIn(lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.left), expr.left);
-            const ctor = {
-                kind: "jsOp",
-                op: "globalGet",
-                name: lowerer.isStdlibGlobal(expr.right, "WeakMap") ? "WeakMap" : "WeakSet",
-                args: [],
-                type: JSVAL,
-                loc,
-            };
-            return { kind: "jsOp", op: "instanceOf", args: [value, ctor], type: BOOL, loc };
-        }
         const value = lowerer.coerceInto(expr.left, lowerer.lowerExpr(expr.left), DYN);
         return {
             kind: "libCall",
@@ -12701,12 +11845,11 @@ function lowerUnionKeyedRead(lowerer, expr, unionId, value, key, literalField) {
     }
     if (joinArms.length === 0)
         return null;
-    // The join must be a BUILDABLE union: arm kinds the union invariants
-    // admit (no dyn/jsval/generator arms; containers only beside unit
-    // siblings). The caller owns the diagnostic for a refused join.
+    // The join must satisfy native union invariants. The caller owns the
+    // diagnostic when a container or opaque arm prevents that join.
     if (joinArms.length > 1 &&
         (!unionContainerArmsOk(joinArms) ||
-            joinArms.some((a) => a.kind === "dyn" || a.kind === "jsval" || a.kind === "generator" || a.kind === "caught"))) {
+            joinArms.some((a) => a.kind === "dyn" || a.kind === "generator" || a.kind === "caught"))) {
         return null;
     }
     joinArms.sort((a, b) => (typeKey(a) < typeKey(b) ? -1 : 1));