2023-10-05 (05 Oct 2023) - Morphir Project Meeting

mcleo-d commented 1 year ago

Date

Thursday 05 Oct 2023 - 11am ET / 3pm UK

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Community Suggestions

Let Recursion - Illegal let recursion states are not caught in the Elm compiler.
IR Bulk - It was noted that the IR is overly large and difficult to deal with. Some points mentioned:
- Redundant type information explodes the IR size.
- Enormous redundancy across files and dependencies.
- The concerns were:
  - Memory issues in the processors
  - De/serialization speed
  - Inspecting the IR by hand, which is apparently needed for writing interpreters.
*Better error message
- The developer app doesn't give feedback on problems or unhandled morphir features, which makes it hard to work with.
- The compiler dumps large JSON messages to the command line, which make them hard to work with.
- Better source code attribution.
Test Generation - Desire to automate unit tests in bulk without requiring the Develop App. Also noted desire for behavior tests with expected outputs.
Multi-package Distributions - Allow multiple packages in a distribution. Also, noted desire for updated packaging, which has been discussed often.