Current Roadmap

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It's time for a new roadmap! So, here's what we'd like to accomplish in the nearest future. This issue will keep getting updated as we progress.

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Language

• Modules & project structure
  • State: First design => Refined => Implementation started => Done!
  • Next: Finish first phase without custom externals
• Implicit generic arguments
  • State: Designed => PR submitted => Done
• Complex pattern-matching and conditionals
  • State: Designed => Implementation started in a branch => Done
• Custom I/O modules in Rust
  • State: Not started
  • Next: Discuss and finalize design and architecture of it

Runtime

• New, faster, more cache-friendly runtime
  • State: PR submitted => Done

Developer UX

• Easy download of Par instead of compile-from-scratch
  • State: There have been previous efforts on this, but for now have been excluded
  • Next: Figure out the best tool to add automatic binary creation as GitHub action
• Playground in the browser
  • State: Initial implementation being prototyped
  • Next: Finish the implementation
• New frontpage
  • State: Not started
  • Next: Figure out the URL, probably on GitHub

Documentation

• FAQ
  • State: Not started
  • Next: Compile a list of frequently asked questions
• Par's mental model
  • State: Not started
  • Next: Write it
• How high-level Par compiles to low-level process calculus
  • State: Not started
  • Next: Write it