Nushell core team meeting 2024-01-10

Attendees

• Storm
• Sophia
• Ian
• Jakub
• Antoine
• Ysthakur
• Darren

Agenda

• (@amtoine) Nupm: avoid use ../../foo/bar.nu
  • Something analogous to Rust's crate?
• autoload: Load all modules from NU_AUTOLOAD_DIRS
  • Add $nu.vendors.autolad_path constant for package maintainers to override if necessary
  • Related conversation: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/11337
• (@Ian) Job control:
  • Commands:
    • job start <closure>: starts new thread and job, returns job id
    • job list: similar to ps
    • job wait [id]
    • job kill [id]
    • job switch [id]?
    • job resume [id]?
    • job pause/stop [id]??
  • Exit codes

Discussed Topics

Relative imports

Sophia:
We need to preserve being able to move directories freely.
The .. feels like a good fit for a shell, let's keep it, not necessary to have super keyword.
Jumping to project root could be useful (like Rust's crate).

Amtoine:
One other possibility is to run tests with package root auto-added to NU_LIB_DIRS.

autoload

Sounds good.

One concern is performace: Adding too much into the autoload directory could affect startup time. But it can be disabled by removing autoload from config, or customizing NU_AUTOLOAD_DIRS.

Job control

Threads vs. processes?
Difference between REPL and script:
* In REPL, jobs should terminate when REPL ends (or shouldn't?)
* In a script, jobs should keep running after evaluation of the script is done

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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