What has happened

• Due to work, life, and travels, things have been quiet.

• Lars has gotten the document generator to do typesetting informed by step bindings: captured parts of scenario steps are now typeset in a different font. This has required writing some internal infrastructure for parsing and handling bindings, and that will be useful going forward, when we start work on code generation.

• Daniel has provided wisdom, Rust mentoring, and code review.

Discussion

• We discussed ways in which the current code is structured, and how that could be improved. The current structure is not entirely idiomatic for Rust, which we hope to improve.

  • combine things that belong together into the same modules
  • use Rust features to limit what’s exported from the crate to its users
  • ask compiler to warn or error if there’s missing documentation
  • add better error types

• We discussed code generation. We’ll start with a language that’s simple for us to generate (shell or Python), and do a minimal version to start with. Then we’ll migrate to using templating for code generation, so it’s easier to add suppor for more output languages.

Actions

• Lars to update roadmap.

• Lars to do suggested cleanup of Subplot code base, and publish a new version of the crate on crates.io.

• Daniel to do code review and mentor.

• Both to reschedule the next chat session for when we have time.