Nushell core team meeting 2023-11-01

Attendees

• AucaCoyan
• Darren
• Michael
• Sophia
• Stefan
• Antoine

Agenda

• Tales from the Record refactor
  • Disallow repeated column names #10875
• Necessary intervention:
  • repeated/tweaked code instead of well-defined types makes semantics unclear
  • tribal knowledge alert!!!
• @storm update on taking my name off the plugins ownership document
• Triage team
• Figure out a way forward with 10843
• Any objections to 10844?
• Build system with overlays and fun

Discussed Topics

Record

We now have most hashmap-like APIs on Record
Goal: hide the implementation details

Decision: we will work towards blocking duplicated column names entirely

IanManske has been picking up some related work

Abstractions/

"We are writing Rust without writing Rust"

Plugin

Storm doesn't have the time to work on plugin design document

We need a mechanism for config etc. passing over
Some folks from the community are interested

Demo/show and tell: build system leveraing nu

https://github.com/quake-build/quake

Build system building a DSL in Nushell

example:

# outer scope

def-task bundle {
    # declaration scope
    depends build-core
} {
    # task body scope
}

task scope should be using only a limited set of commands -> overlay

Interesting scoping/overlay/parallelism questions

Darren: hide around overlay seems broken

associated state to the scopes would be nice

possibly related to $db?

cwd in cd and the uutils fs commands 10843

• issue: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10832
• we don't consistently set the cwd to the outside environment (thread safety?)
• cp needs the path for both behavior and errorhandling
  • can we unblock this by passing both an absolute and minimally specified path
  • ping terts

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the issues which needs-core-team-attention

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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