Misc #20781: DevMeeting-2024-11-07

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

The next dev meeting

Date: 2024/11/07 13:00-17:00 (JST)
Log: TBD

• Dev meeting IS NOT a decision-making place. All decisions should be done at the bug tracker.
• Dev meeting is a place we can ask Matz, nobu, nurse and other developers directly.
• Matz is a very busy person. Take this opportunity to ask him. If you can not attend, other attendees can ask instead of you (if attendees can understand your issue).
• We will write a record of the discussion in the file or to each ticket in English.
• All activities are best-effort (keep in mind that most of us are volunteer developers).
• The date, time and place of the meeting are scheduled according to when/where we can reserve Matz's time.
• DO NOT discuss then on this ticket, please.

Call for agenda items

If you have a ticket that you want matz and committers to discuss, please post it into this ticket in the following format:

* [Ticket ref] Ticket title (your name)
  * Comment (A summary of the ticket, why you put this ticket here, what point should be discussed, etc.)

Example:

* [Feature #14609] `Kernel#p` without args shows the receiver (ko1)
  * I feel this feature is very useful and some people say :+1: so let discuss this feature.

• It is recommended to add a comment by 2024/11/04. We hold a preparatory meeting to create an agenda a few days before the dev-meeting.
• The format is strict. We'll use this script to automatically create an markdown-style agenda. We may ignore a comment that does not follow the format.
• Your comment is mandatory. We cannot read all discussion of the ticket in a limited time. We appreciate it if you could write a short summary and update from a previous discussion.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Related to Misc #14770: [META] DevelopersMeeting added

[eightbitraptor (Matt V-H)]

• [Feature #20794] Expose information about the currently running GC Module (@eightbitraptor (Matt V-H))
  • This adds a dynamic component to RUBY_DESCRIPTION, when a modular GC is loaded. Is this acceptable?
  • This adds a method GC.active_gc_name
    • Is the name OK?
    • Are the semantics OK? (nil unless a GC module is actively being used).

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• [Feature #20811] warning: in a**b, b may be too big is really helpful? (mame)
  • I think the warning is not useful. Can we remove the warning?

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• [Feature #20782] Introduction of Happy Eyeballs Version 2 (RFC8305) in TCPSocket.new
  • Propose shioimm as a Ruby committer
    • How about it?

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• [Feature #20859] Make Base64 to core class
  • It's useful and helpful for gemification.

[peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)]

• [Feature #20860] Merge Optional Experimental Feature MMTk into Ruby
  • We are proposing to merge MMTk into the ruby/mmtk repository, which will be mirrored into ruby/ruby.
  • This implementation uses the GC API (introduced in [Feature #20470]).
  • Supports the NoGC and mark-sweep algorithms.
  • We do not ever anticipate replacing Ruby's default GC with MMTk but instead offer it as an alternative implementation.
  • We have our roadmap proposed in the ticket, which includes supporting generations, improving parallelism, and support moving, faster algorithms such as Immix.

[furunkel (Julian Aron Prenner)]

• [Feature #20818] Allow passing a block to Hash#store to update current value (furunkel)
  • currently, to update a value in a hash we have to call #[] followed by #[]=
    • this calls #hash twice (on key), and requires two lookups; this also happens for shortcuts such as h[k] += c
  • the problem could be solved by introducing a block form for Hash#store (Hash#update is already taken)
    • the block is called with the current value or the default value if the key does not exist; return value = new value
    • inverse of Hash#fetch, which also can take block
  • h[k] = some_method(h[k]) could be written as h.store(k) { some_method(_1) }, more efficient and more elegant in some cases (e.g., if k is complex, no repetition)
  • exists in other languages: e.g., Map#computeIfAbsent|Present (Java) or and_modify (Rust)
  • existing implementation: GH PR#11956

[AlexandreMagro (Alexandre Magro)]

• [Feature #20770] (Re)Introduce pipe operator (AlexandreMagro)
  • Initially proposed as syntactic sugar for .then, and later refined after discussion to work as a statement separator (like ;) with a variable carrying the LHS expression result to the RHS in #note-34.
  • This approach aligns with how pipes work in other languages, adapted for Ruby.
  • Improves readability by transforming p(q(r)) into a more natural r |> q |> p,
    matching how we think.