Nushell core team meeting 2023-12-27

Attendees

• Antoine
• Sophia
• Storm
• Ian
• Yash

Agenda

• Nupm: avoid use ../../foo/bar.nu (wait for @kubouch)
  • --
• Stack/Value cloning causing performance issues: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11288
  • Should we change Stack to be a linked list?
  • Make cloning of Values cheaper? (e.g., Cow?)
  • VM?

Discussed Topics

Stack

share the env instead of the stack
guide the author in that direction

stack split

Sophia was not fond of the current solution and had some possible suggestions of how to move this forward.

lots of benchmarking before / after to test different scenario's in order to measure whether the newer solution is any better

Summary

We had a short meeting today less than 25 minutes and hope everyone has a healthy happy New Year !

Issues

the issues which needs-core-team-attention

Note
to list all the PRs currently opened in nushell/nushell:

gh pr list --json url,number,author,title
| from json
| each {|i|
    $"- [($i.number)]\(($i.url)\) ($i.title) \(@($i.author.login)\)"
}
| reverse
| to text