[2023-02-13] Library & Engine Team Update.

[jdunkerley]

• James: Fix for serializing large integers and display in IDE. Some fixed form the Anagrams experiment. #5592
• James: Fix for Date, Time_Of_Day and Date_Time in table viz. Some fixed form the Anagrams experiment. #5592
• James: Removed warning on empty separator for concatenation. Some fixed form the Anagrams experiment. #5592
• James: Fix for issue with List<Value> in the Table. Some fixed form the Anagrams experiment. #5592
• James: Removing Column and simpler selector API. Remove Column type from Aggregate_Column, simplify Column_Selector, some new File_Formats #5646
• James: Excel Workbook and new File_Format for images and SQLite. Remove Column type from Aggregate_Column, simplify Column_Selector, some new File_Formats #5646
• James: Updated Vector_Editor Widget. Remove Column type from Aggregate_Column, simplify Column_Selector, some new File_Formats #5646
• James: Prototype work for connecting to a directory.
• Radek: Table.aggregate returning a hard error if an invalid aggregation. Rework Invalid Aggregations #5579
• Radek: Review and improving warnings on Table.filter. Implement basic warnings for column arithmetic, review warnings on expressions and filter #5605
• Radek: Add problem handling (like Arithmetic Error) to derived columns / expressions. Implement basic warnings for column arithmetic, review warnings on expressions and filter #5605
• Radek: Investigating issues from personal Enso project with delimited reading and writing.
• Greg: New simpler Text.toDisplayString implementation. Improve Text.toDisplayString. #5045
• Hubert: Fix so that Polyglot values are recognized as Enso types in the IDE. Report type of expressions returning polyglot values #4111
• Hubert: Fix for fully qualified names causing the engine to crash. Fix serialization of FQNs #5600
• Hubert: Working to improve import so only requested modules are processed.
• Hubert: Fix infinite loop when any unexpected crash happens during serialization Recover from serialization failures #5591
• Jaroslav: Investigated start up performance issues of Language Server and Engine and agreed plan forward.
• Jaroslav: Fixed issue with type pattern matching matching the type itself.
• Jaroslav: Proof of concept for Regex.compile ensuring only single compile.
• Jaroslav: Proof of concept for Text.replace with special replacement strings. develop...JaroslavTulach:wip/jtulach/TRegex_181348590
• Jaroslav: New sbt shorthand runEngineDistribution for running the CLI within sbt with arguments. sbt runEngineDistribution ...args... to build and execute the engine #5609
• Pavel M: Completed and merged custom equality and hash code. Add Comparator conversion for all types #4067
• Pavel M: Consistent ordering for <, >, <= and >=. Add Comparator conversion for all types #4067
• Pavel M: Upgrading to GraalVM 22.3.1 - fixes chrome debugger issue. Update GraalVM to 22.3.1 #5602
• Dmitry: Fix for expressions not having a method pointer if updated before suggestion database. Lookup method pointers in IDE #5578
• Dmitry: Added method pointer for constructor expressions. Send method pointers of constructors #5593
• Dmitry: Working to pre-compute the suggesion DB during build time.
• Pawel G: Working to add what is needed for nested expression.
• Pawel G: Support for drop downs on in-fix functions.
• Pawel G: Design work for the Vector Editor widget.

[jdunkerley]

cc: @radeusgd @GregoryTravis @hubertp @JaroslavTulach @Akirathan @4e6 @Frizi @kustosz

[radeusgd]

Some late screenshots showing the new error handling in expressions