This Month in Mun - June 2020

June 30, 2020, The Mun Team

After the dust settled of the Mun v0.2 release, the focus of this month has been on fixing several issues found by community members, improving the overall quality of the code base and working towards our next release: Mun v0.3.

Community

A few important community PRs landed during this month:

  • improvement: added combatibility check between munlib and runtime [PR#226]
  • refactor!: Replace deprecated failure crate with thiserror and anyhow [PR#213]

In honour of the Mun v0.2 release we launched the Make It or Break It contest in which we invite both content creators and developers to use Mun v0.2 and make or break something with/in Mun. The best Make It or Break It entry will be showcased on the front page of the Mun website.

We’ve already seen several issues being posted which break Mun v0.2 in interesting ways. We are very glad that these issues surfaced and we’ve been working hard on fixing them:

  • fix: fixes a lot of llvm assertions [PR#233]
  • fix: fixes issues #225 [PR#232]
  • fix: fixes issue #228 [PR#229]
  • fix(codegen): crash on missing nested private function [PR#221]

June also marks the month in which the mun-lang organization has been admitted to the Github Sponsorship program. We saw a influx of sponsors on both our Github sponsors as well as on our Open Collective. We can’t thank you enough!

We also added another good first issue:

If you are interested in helping develop Mun - but are not sure where to start - feel free to reach out to us on Discord or Twitter. To support our cause, please consider donating to our Open Collective or Github Sponsors.

Mun v0.3 progress

We work with a tick-tock verison model. With a tick version we implement important new features whereas with a tock version we improve on the last version. Mun v0.2 was a tick version so Mun v0.3 will be a tock version. We have defined milestones on GitHub, on which you can follow the progress of the upcoming release.

A lot of work has been put into the next release:

  • feature: foundation for projects [PR#223]

    This PR introduces the concept of projects as described in the Project Management tracking issue. Instead of building Mun files by listing individual source files you now build an entire project (similar to a rust crate).

  • feat: language server setup [PR#210]

    Work on our language server has slowly been progressing. The basic foundation has been implemented but no actual language server features have been implemented yet. We are working hard on implementing the first basic features:

    Diagnostics in VSCode

  • refactor(codegen): type safe inkwell types [PR#202]

    A major thorn in our sight was the use of partially untyped inkwell types in our codebase. When dealing with a StructValue there is really no way to ensure that the underlying struct value is actually of the type you’d expect. To that end we implemented the Value<T> type which wraps an inkwell type but retains the Rust type information. With this, we already found some glaring issues which have now been fixed.

There is still a lot more work to do for Mun v0.3, so stay tuned!