Nushell core team meeting 2024-05-22

Attendees

Devyn: buffering stuttering with htttp get/save downloads?
- more detailed triangulation necessary
Raw "benchmark" open -r file1 | save file2

https://github.com/quake-build/quake
build system using nu component crates.
- DSL to create tasks
- registering some existing commands
own def-task command (with complexities)
- runs into the keyword-y behavior of our def and friends -> own parsing step to handle the blocks?
(thread on ideas https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615329862395101194/1242194131371954296)
- parser refactor
- librarification
- error handling
  - parse error
- POSIX concerns
upstream has been overtaking some of the local patches
Sophia: goal keep the integration as close to "vanilla" Nushell to ensure most users have the same and improved experience
Darren: reference to couchbase shell (by couchbasedb as a repl)
- ship their own commands
crates that needed hacking for the quake requirements
- primarily nu-parser to integrate a new keyword-like command

is it requirement for 1.0 is recurring question
perf as a motivation
- stdlib config load times
- how many passes make sense to keep things in the happy cache land of the flat-AST design
- Sophia's work on truffle with a VM with op-codes with tuned opcodes
span/node ids
- jakub has been hacking on the existing parser/protocol system
  - replace Span with SpanId (only the parser knows about Span): monster pr with constant breakage
  - flattening is a challenge as the Span are gone into SpanId at the point we would flatten currently: move to different pass
  - how to move incrementally to new SpanIds?
  - would permit integration of new-nu-parser in a faster as we have IDs beyond the parser/AST
  - testing
    - ? have tests that snapshot/verify the stuff marked by the spans
    - some of the tests for completions break
loss less parsing for documentation
- Darren: introducing annotation attributes
- Devyn: nuon edit?
- nufmt: wouldn't need the following passes but could benefit from a parser pass (with minimal validation verifying whitespace rules)