Nushell core team meeting 2025-04-09

Attendees

• Jakub
• Darren
• Piet
• Michael
• Jack
• Andy
• Bahex
• Jan9103
• Rose
• Douglas

Agenda

• script-based plugins.
  • related: #15482
  • should they live in the main repo
  • they cannot be executed on Windows
    plugin add --shell <...>
  • do we want to make real packages for python and js?
• where closure vs. row condition #15467
• [x]

Discussed Topics

• about script-based plugins
  • create a new repo plugin-examples for plugin examples in any language
  • add tests using nightly for it
  • create hierarchy for each language
  • move example plugins from main repo into it, leave core "actual" plugins in main repo
  • packages are for another day
  • Plugins that will remain in the core repo
    • nu_plugin_formats
    • nu_plugin_gstat
    • nu_plugin_inc
    • nu_plugin_polars
    • nu_plugin_query
    • nu_plugin_stress_internals
• we should investigate if we can deprecate filter if we can make everything work with where
  • right now, only filter is able to use a variable with a closure
  • it used to be not possible to merge this behavior completely into where

Topics for next meeting

• how do we feel about renaming $it to $in for where condition