[2023-11-20] Team GUI Demo Day

[farmaazon]

• Implementing using alias analysis and almost finished it: Edges from alias analysis #8316

• Next week plans: implement Preview visualization in Component Browser #7787 but first fix all discovered issues.

[MichaelMauderer]

• Finished enso-8194 Copy and pasting a single node #8298
• Finished Fix component browser interactions. #8303
• Implemented All ways of creating node (+ button, dragging out edges) #8341

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[somebody1234]

• spent most of last week on website2 (bugfixes, minor touchups)
• i believe wojciech was mostly working on changes to text, colors, the final section, and the animations for small screens

PRs merged:

• Fixes for GUI2 #8310
• Fix Geo Map visualization #8311
• Layout nodes without position #8326
• Unify GUI2 headers #8327

a reminder that GUI2 should be basically usable for testing with book clubs! especially with the PRs merged over the past week

[vitvakatu]

Finishing imports: #8315.

Because of the number of corner cases and occasional regressions on develop, it took longer than estimated.

Kapture.2023-11-20.at.17.12.29.mp4

Now starting to work on #8260

[Frizi]

• Implemented displaying argument widgets, both for existing and missing ones. [GUI2] Render widget arguments #8339
  Connecting to placeholders is not fully implemented yet, and it is a separate task.

arg-placeholders.mp4

Nested argument lists are also handled nicely.

[mwu-tow]

• Fixed macOS builds & releases (Bump electron-builder on CI macOS runners. #8284);

Ongoing stuff:

• post-graal-bump backend release issue;
• recent 7.4.0 release broke our build-script wrapper;
• fixing NSIS installer on newer electron-builder.

[kazcw]

Finished new AST (#8263) implementation. Will PR porting app logic to new types today. Using the new AST to edit nodes will be in a follow-up PR.

The new AST allows the application to start its analysis from a higher level of abstraction:

[JaroslavTulach]

Major work be engine-ers:

• Improving Component Browser - Inline Execution #8148
• 16% speedup of Hello World - Store IR caches in suitable format to read them "on demand" #8207
• Upgrade to latest GraalVM - Upgrade enso to GraalVM for jdk 21 #7991