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The Heap is Just a Document: How Stof Actually Works

CJ Cummings
Co-founder & CEO, Limitr

Every document on your computer is just a pile of bytes. A photo, a spreadsheet, a JSON file — underneath, it's all the same kind of stuff: bytes sitting next to other bytes.

Now here's the idea behind Stof: what if a few of those bytes were instructions? Small pieces that say "add one to that number over there" or "combine those two words into a name"? Not code stored somewhere else that reads the document — instructions that live inside the document itself, right next to the data they're allowed to change.

That's a Stof document. Data and the instructions for changing that data, in the same pile of bytes.