Concepts

These pages explain how brink works — the mental model behind the API, not a how-to. Read them once and the guides and reference will make more sense; skip them and you can still get a story running, you just won’t know why.

• The Two Pipelines — why there’s a native compiler and a converter, and which one you want.
• The Execution Model — how a compiled story runs: the Program/Story split, the step loop, Line, and choices. The shared foundation every client (raw Rust, Bevy, web) builds on.
• Architecture & the Firewall — how the crates are split so the runtime never links the compiler.
• The Compilation Pipeline — the six phases that turn .ink source into bytecode.