Princeton Ferro

Download format not in superior .tar.xz.gz.exe.dmg.cab.jar.zip format

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On the website the distribution format is a .zip, while the more popular development projects these days are using higher levels of compression.

print to stderr and introduce meson build script

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- Printing to stderr is preferable because we can separate gobject-list output from normal program output - Introducing a Meson build script is useful for linking to gobject-list statically. It's...

Add test cases for the language server. This introduces a new (optional) build-time dependency, the [Language Server Testing Framework](https://github.com/Prince781/lstf), which is still under development. Issues covered: - vala-language-server#57 - vala-language-server#106...

Draft: Off-main-thread compilation and other performance improvements

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I'm investigating use of worker threads to keep the server responsive when compiling large projects. As a first iteration on a solution, we create a worker thread and a temporary...

workspace/configuration and GNOME Builder

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Support `workspace/configuration` request from GNOME Builder.

enable Vala non-null analysis for codebase

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We should consider enabling the `--enable-experimental-non-null` flag when compiling.

Support type narrowing

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It seems that this feature was implemented in the compiler in such a way that the data type of the type-narrowed symbol is unchanged. So we have to either change...

Introduce completions for attributes and attribute properties. This may require upstream work to: - fix the parser to handle syntactically invalid attributes - introduce something like `Vala.AttributeParameter : Vala.CodeNode` so...

Classes with a `[GtkTemplate]` attribute should get completions for fields and other things