# Nushell core team meeting 2024-09-25
## Attendees
- Antoine
- Darren
- Piepmatz
- Michael
- Rose
- Devyn
- Stefan
- Jack
- Andy
- NotTheDroids (Doug or Douglas)

## Agenda
- [x] [12953](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/12953) broke LS_COLORS. Need to investigate.
- [x] glob folder depth ([#13914](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13914), [#13915](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/13915))

## Discussed Topics

### PWD change to statically point to the process dir

- LS_COLORS: probably needs to pass some absolute path instead of a relative path.
- reedline: pass the CWD to `Reedline` instance on each repl iteration so the cwd-aware hinter works again

### `glob` folder depth

- depth limit: would be great for performance
- issues:
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13914
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/12557
- risk that the attempt to come up with a heuristic could lead to false negatives
- [even when having the AST available](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/13915#issuecomment-2372453773)?
- overshadowed by the `wax` and `nu-glob` duplication/divergence
- `glob` -> `nu-glob` less features supported (more complex patterns, excludes)
- `wax` has edge cases we have to hack around also lackluster compatibility with Windows.
- Darren had played with `jwalk` for its performance with directory traversal

Invitation for a consolidated solution implemented by us

### `sort-by`

- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/13154
- two possible closures
- a closure to generate the sorting key
- alternative comparison operator
- issues along the way
- natural sort
- treat numeric strings like number
- (currently also intermix numbers and numeric string)

### std-library dicing and lazy-loading

- Motivating issues: loading the whole standard library takes a not insignificant times to parse
- NotTheDroids has been slicing the modules of the standard library in to its parts.
- so not load all its submodules automatically.

#### subrelated issue
semantic difference between `use std dirs` and `use std/dirs`
the former loads the whole `std` and puts `dirs` into scope while the latter only loads the `dirs` (as it is possible here as the module is defined in a separate file)

-> Amtoine explained how this came about, we need to probably talk to Jakub for the larger module story

### config loading when there is not config folder or config file

NotTheDr01ds PR for config [#13857 Only ask to create config files the first time nu is started](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/13857) - Darren and NTD have been discussing in the PR. Please jump in if you have an opinion. Darren is close to landing it after the last iteration and explanation of how it will work.

I will put this at the top of the agenda for next week when I post the agenda -- storm