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refaktor / rye

homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
https://ryelang.org
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Extract contrib and other extras from rye #260

Open noonien opened 2 months ago

noonien commented 2 months ago

Currently, the repository contains code for various contrib functions.

While everything is disabled by default, and can be enabled with build flags. it would be nice to have these in a separate repository as they are usually not needed when embedding rye.

Maybe the builtins can also be extracted from the evaldo into their own package.

refaktor commented 2 months ago

Hi, thank you for posted isues. For first few "years" (I think), contrib was a separate repository and a submodule in rye repository. But since it was a constant complication to get started with Rye and with updating it to latest state at some point I decided to just make it a normal folder in Rye, at least for now. So right now, I wouldn't change this back, unless you know for some better approach than submodule.

Making Rye-front was also an experiment on how you could extend Rye from "the other side" or externally. And it proved a good idea as we were able to reuse all Rye code, also for main binary / repl ... but it's still an open experiment.

I agree the builtins should move out of evaldo yes. So this should be done at some point.

Currently main goal is to unify the native terminal "liner" and the "wasm / browser" liner, microliner. Another developer is working on autogenerating Fyne bindings. And I have some open experiments, so moving builtins out of evaldo wouldn't be done right now but we will find time for it at some point soon.